Any person offending against the provisions of this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

All persons employed on or about the railway or wharf are strictly prohibited from using the refreshment-room, and every such person partaking of intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will be liable to instant dismissal.

Any person attending upon the refreshment-room who shall supply an employee on or about the railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and shall be dismissed from their service.

Merchandise.

The railway will not be accountable for any articles unless the same be signed for as received by their clerks or agents; nor will they be responsible for the loss of or damage to money in cash, or bills, or promissory notes, or securities for money or jewellery, trinkets, rings, precious stones, bullion, gold and silver plate, clocks, watches, mirrors, marbles, lace, furs, silks, writings, title deeds, prints, paintings, maps, or other valuables; nor for damage done to china, glass, musical instruments, furniture, toys, castings, or any other such hazardous or brittle articles, unless they shall have been declared as such, and a special agreement entered into for the same; nor for any loss or damage to any goods in their hands as carriers, or in their warehouses, or on their landing-places, arising from fire (except from their own engine or appliances), the act of God, civil commotion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of or damage done to goods put into boxes or packages described as empties; nor for damage of any goods or packages insufficiently or improperly packed, or containing a variety of articles liable by breaking to damage each other or other articles; nor for leakage; nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by reason of accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or otherwise.

No claim for loss or damage will be allowed unless specified in writing and made within two days after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or within seven days after the due time of delivery in case of total loss.

The railway will refuse to receive for carriage any goods which in the judgment of their agents may be of a dangerous nature; and senders of any dangerous articles will be held accountable for any damage arising therefrom, unless the contents shall have been declared at the time of delivery.

Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perishable articles not taken away within six hours after arrival at the station to which they are consigned, may be forthwith sold by auction or otherwise, without notice to the sender or consignee; and payment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale, after deduction of freight and expenses, shall be accepted as equivalent to delivery.

All consignments not taken away within one month after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.

All goods are received and will be held by the railway subject to a general lien for money due, not only for the carriage of such goods, and for wharfage and warehouse rent, but also for any general balance that may be due from the owner. And in case any goods should not be claimed within three calendar months after their arrival at the station to which they are consigned, they will be sold by auction or otherwise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction of such general lien and expenses.

All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destination, shall be removed by the consignees from the platform and sheds within twelve working hours; and any free goods, merchandise, or luggage not removed by that time, may be stored at the risk and expense of the consignees or owners, and will become subject to such charges as may from time to time be fixed by the railway; and any bonded goods or merchandise which shall not be removed within the period aforesaid, shall be subject to the payment of the sum of two shillings per ton per day until the removal of the same from the railway premises.

Any goods, merchandise, or luggage arriving at any station, which shall not be removed from the railway premises within twelve working hours, may be forwarded to Dunedin or Port Chalmers at the expense of the consignee or owner, and there stored at his risk and expense.

N.B.—The above conditions apply to all parcels and goods received by the railway at their respective offices and warehouses, wherever situate.

All tolls and charges and warehousing charges must be paid immediately to the person duly authorised to receive the same.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

1st May, 1873.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

From the New Zealand Gazette, June 5, 1873, No. 36.

WARRANT APPOINTING ADDITIONAL POLLING PLACE.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering Government.

To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting:—

Now therefore, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby appoint the following place to be an additional Polling Place for the District of Mount Ida for the Election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, namely:—

The School House, Kyeburn Diggings.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the Officer Administering the Government, and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

From the New Zealand Gazette, May 29, 1873, No. 34.

FIXING SITTINGS OF DISTRICT COURT, OTAGO GOLD FIELDS.

G. A. ARNEY,
Officer Administering the Government.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George Alfred Arney, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, during the months of July and August next, shall be held as follows:—

• In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby on the second Wednesday in July next.
• In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde on the Monday next after the second Wednesday in July next.
• In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown on the Monday second after the second Wednesday in July next.
• In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence on the second Tuesday in August next.

Provided that in case any of the days so fixed as aforesaid shall happen to be a holiday, then the Court appointed for that day shall be holden on the first day thereafter, not being a holiday.

Issued this twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

G. MURRAY O’ROURKE,
(In the absence of the Minister of Justice.)