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Passengers are required to produce their tickets for examination when required to do so by the proper officer of the railway, and to sign their names when desired so to do in the books of the railway provided for that purpose.

In the event of the loss of a season ticket, the holder will not be entitled to another in lieu thereof without another payment.

Season tickets are required to be delivered up to the Railway department on or before the date of expiry, on which date they cease to be in force.

Season tickets may be obtained at any date on application either personally or in writing at the Traffic Manager’s Office, Invercargill, and at the General Manager’s Office, Dunedin, or by written application transmitted through any of the Railway Station Masters. Twenty-four hours’ notice should be given in all cases. Applicants will be required to subscribe to the railway rules, by-laws, and regulations, before the tickets can be delivered to them.

General Regulations.

Notice.—In order to secure the punctual departure of trains, passengers are requested to be at the stations at least five minutes before the time appointed for starting, and earlier if they have luggage, as the Government cannot be responsible for passengers not going by any train, unless they have taken their seats before the time it is due to start, or for any luggage not being sent on if it is not in the station, and labelled, at least five minutes before the advertised time of the departure of the train.

Children under three years travel free; those above three years and under twelve, at half price.

Tickets must be shown to the railway servants, or delivered up to them when demanded. Parties not producing their tickets are liable to be charged the fare from the most distant station from which the train shall have started. They are only available on the day of issue, and are not transferable. Parties cannot re-book at an intermediate station by the same train. No tickets will be issued after a train arrives at an intermediate station.

Tickets.—Passengers are requested to examine their tickets and change before leaving the booking office counter, as mistakes cannot afterwards be rectified.

The Government will not undertake to make any allowance for tickets lost, mislaid, or not used.

Luggage.—Every first-class passenger may take with him, without extra payment, 120 lbs.; every second-class 100 lbs. of luggage. All other luggage must be paid for at half parcel rates according to weight.

The Government will not in any case be liable for luggage taken with the passengers into the carriages, but only when it is labelled and placed in the luggage van.

Incivility.—The Government requests that any instance of incivility or misconduct on the part of the persons employed at the stations may be directly reported to the General Manager.

N.B.—The Government appoint that the undermentioned sums be paid for warehousing passengers’ luggage, which has been, or is about to be, conveyed on their railway, viz.:

For any period not exceeding three days, 2d. for each package; and after three days, 1d. additional for each package per day, or part of day.

And they hereby give notice that they will not be answerable for loss or injury to any such package beyond the value of £5, unless at the time of the delivery of such package to them, the true value and nature thereof, and of the article or articles, or property therein, shall have been declared by the person delivering the same, and a sum at the rate of a 1d. per pound sterling of the declared value be paid for such package for each day or part of day for which the same shall be left, in addition to the before-mentioned ordinary warehouse charges.

Every person depositing luggage will be furnished with a receipt, stating the number and description of the articles deposited, which receipt must be given up to the railway servants upon their delivery of the articles thereon described; and the Government give notice that they will not deliver up luggage except to persons producing the proper receipt for the respective articles claimed, which delivery shall acquit the Government from all further claims in respect thereof.

The Government will not be responsible under any circumstances, for loss of, or injury to, any articles, except deposited in the cloak-room.

Articles of merchandise such as hampers or cases, furniture, household stores, &c., will not be received at the cloak-rooms, and such packages can only be forwarded through the parcels or goods offices as parcel or goods, and they must in all cases be fully addressed.

Forsyth Gourlie,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT DUNEDIN FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 1875, at 9 a.m.

Lat. 45 deg. 52 min. 11 sec. S. Long. 170 deg. 32 min. 37 sec. E. Height above sea level, 500 feet.

| Temperature in Shade— | Fah. |
| Mean maximum temperature | 66.2 |
| Mean minimum temperature | 49.7 |
| Approximate temperature for the month | 58.4 |
| Mean daily range of temperature | 16.5 |
| Extreme maximum temperature on 11th | 82 |
| Extreme minimum temperature on 28th | 38 |
| Extreme range of temperature for month | 44 |
| Mean temperature of evaporation | ... |

| Exposed Thermometers— |
| Mean solar radiation | 138 |
| Maximum solar radiation on 11th | 161 |
| Mean terrestrial radiation | 46 |
| Minimum terrestrial radiation on 28th | 37 |
| Mean daily range between the extreme temperature of night and day | 92 |

| Hygrometrical— |
| Mean elastic force of vapour (computed from the difference of temperature of the dry and wet bulb thermometers) | 0.371 in. |
| Mean temperature of dew point | 49.3 |
| Mean degree of moisture (Saturation = 1) | 0.760 |

| Rain— |
| Total rainfall | 1.288 inches |
| Number of days on which rain fell | 9 days |
| Maximum rainfall in any 24 hours on the 24th | 0.384 inches |

| Wind— |
| Average daily velocity for month | 145 miles |
| Maximum velocity for month, on 19th | 465 miles |
| Mean amount of cloud for month (0, clear sky; 10, overcast) | 6.0 to 10 |

Remarks.

High winds on 11th, 18th, and 19th, from S.W.
Hail on 27th. Aurora on 27th.

(Signed) HENRY SKEY, Observer.

Note.—In this Abstract the results are inserted for the day on which they are recorded, although occurring during the preceding twenty-four hours.

DUNEDIN:
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Coulls & Culling, of Rattray-street, Printers to said Provincial Government for the time being.