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part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or deface any
of the windows, or remove or injure any number plate,
or advertisement, or remove or extinguish any of the
lamps, or otherwise damage any railway carriage, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, in addi-
tion to the payment of the amount of damage done.

No articles shall be sold on any railway premises with-
out the consent of the Superintendent, and every person
offending against the provisions of this section shall for-
feit 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 paid 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, 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 warehouse, or on their landing-places,
arising from fire (except from their own engine or appa-
ratus), the act of God, civil commotion, or foreign ene-
mies; 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 im-
properly 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
such claim be 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 there-
of any such sale, after deduction of freight and expenses,
shall be accepted as equivalent to delivery.

All empties 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
premises within twenty-four working hours; and any free goods,
merchandise, or luggage not removed by that time, may
be stored at the act 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 pay-
ment 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 Invercargill 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

In the matter of the "Highway Boards Empowering
Act, 1871, and of an Order made by the Makarewa
Road Board, for opening up a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that the order made by the
Makarewa Road Board, on the 18th day of August,
1875, and published in the Otago Government
Gazette, No. 982 on the 1st day of September, 1875, for
opening a road along the northern side of section 35
block XIII, Invercargill Hundred, has this day been
confirmed by me.

Dated at Dunedin, this 21st day of December, 1875.
J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

NOTICE.

BUSH RESERVES in the south-west district of the
Province of Otago, formerly known as the Province
of Southland.

IT is hereby notified that I have caused to be tempo-
rarily reserved, under Clause 18 of the "Southland
Waste Land Act, 1865," the whole of the unsold and
unappropriated forest land in the late Province of South-
land, as delineated on the survey maps, always excepting
a belt of 5 chains in depth on the edge of the bushes,
should their size permit of it.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

Superintendent's Office,
Dunedin, 21st December, 1875.

"The Neglected and Criminal Childrens' Act, 1867."

HIS HONOR the Superintendent, directs it to be
notified that he has appointed
MR ELIJAH TITCHENER
to be Master, and
MRS EMMA TITCHENER,
his wife, to be Matron of the Reformatory School, esta-
blished under the "Neglected and Criminal Childrens'
Act, 1867."

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

BLACKSTONE HILL CEMETERY.

RESIGNATION.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be noti-
fied that he has received and accepted the resig-
nation of Mr James Duff as a Manager of the Blackstone
Hill Cemetery.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office,
Dunedin, 15th December, 1875.

SOUTHERN TRUNK TO KAITANGATA.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 11th
January, 1876, for

Contract No. 1091.—Metalling 50½ chains road
in Block 14, North Molyneux district.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin, and at the Police Camp, Balclutha.

Tenders to be indorsed "Tender for Contract No.
1091." The Government does not undertake to accept
the lowest or any tender.

J. GREEN,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 21st December, 1875.