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contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty Clocks. Paintings, not exceeding ten pounds. Drays. Pictures. 34. No person will be allowed to come upon any rail- Engravings. Piy;s. way platform for the purpose of removing any pas- Furniture. Plated Articles. senger or luggage, unless required by a passenger Furs. Precious Stones. and engaged by him for such purpose, and no person Glass. Sheep. will be allowed to come upon any railway premises Gold or Silver Coin. Silks. for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any per- Gold or Silver Plate. Slate Goods. son attempting to evade or being guilty of a breach Gold or Silver, Manu- Stamps. of this section, or not quitting the premises when re- factured. Title Deeds. quired by a Station Clerk or other railway servant Gold or Silver,Unmanu- Toys. shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. factured. Trinkets. 35. Any person, unless authorized by the General Horses. Wagons. Manager, who shall post or stick any placard or bill Jewellery. "Watches, within or on any of the property or premises, shall Lace. Writings. be subject to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 41. The consignment note accompanying any spe--36. Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly cial goods must state them to be " special," and must or in part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or set forth their nature and value. Unless such statedeface any of the windows, or remove or injure any ment and declaration is made, the Minister is not number-plate or advertisement, or remove or ex- responsible for any loss or damage to a greater extent tinguish any of the lamps, or otherwise damage any than fifteen pounds in respect to any horse, eight engine, carriage, truck, wagon, or other property pounds in respect to any neat cattle, fifteen shillings belonging to a railway, shall be liable to a penalty in respect of any sheep or swine, and ten pounds in not exceeding ten pounds, in addition to a sum equal respect of any package in which any special goods to the cost incurred in repairing any such damage. are contained. All special goods exceeding in value 37. Any person selling, or attempting to sell, any the above-mentioned sums, shall be subject to a article on any of the premises of a railway without charge, in addition to the ordinary freight, by way of the consent of the General Manager, shall forfeit a insurance, according to a scale of rates of insurance sum not exceeding ten pounds. to be from time to time published by the Minister in 38. No goods will be received for carriage, or that behalf. carried upon a railway, except upon the following 42. If the value of any special goods stated on the conditions : — consignment note appears to the officer receiving the (1.) That a "consignment note," on a form to same to be extravagant or fictitious, or if the goods be obtained from the person in charge of are of a nature to be extraordinarily liable to damage, the Station, properly filled in and signed by such officer may refuse to receive them without the or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to instructions of the General Manager of the railway. the officer receiving the goods at the time And the General Manager may, by the authority of of their delivery. (See notice below.) and on behalf of the Minister, make such special (2.) That the person delivering the goods ob- agreement for the carriage of such goods, on such tains at the same time a written receipt for terms as to insurance or otherwise, as he thinks fit; the same, signed by the officer to whom or if no such special agreement is come to, may rethey are delivered. fuse to receive or carry such goods on the railway, 39. The Minister will not be responsible for any except at the sole risk of the consignor; and upon loss or damage in respect to any goods received for notice in writing to the consignor to that effect carriage, or carried on a railway, under any of the given to the consignor by the General Manager, the following circumstances, that is to say, — Minister shall not be liable to any claim for loss or (1.) If the above-mentioned consignment note damage from any cause whatsoever in respect of such is not delivered with the goods, or the re- goods. Such notice may be served upon the conceipt not obtained for the same. signor or his agent, or either of them, or may be left (2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently at the last known place of abode or business of described on the consignment note. either of them. (3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the 43. Any claim for loss or damage must be specipremises of the railway for more than fled in writing, and made within two days after twelve working hours after their arrival at delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or within the station to which they are addressed. seven days after the due time of delivery iv case of (4.) If they are put into packages described as total loss. " empties." 44. No person shall have any right to send by a (5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely railway any goods of a dangerous nature ; and if any packed, or if articles liable by breakage or person attempts to send by a railway, or deposits in leakage to damage one another are packed any premises of the railway, any box or package in the same package. containing any such goods, or any goods declared by (6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act the Regulations, or publicly notified by the Minister, of God, civil commotions, Queen's enemies, to be of a dangerous nature, without distinctly or from fire (except from the railway en- marking the contents on the outside of such box or gines or apparatus), or from accidental package, or giving notice in writing of the contents delays in transit occurring from either of to the officer in charge of the station at which such these causes. box or package is left, he shall be guilty of a mis--40. The following goods are hereby declared to be demeanour. special goods, within the meaning of "The Public The following are, amongst others, declared to be Works Act, 1876 " : — dangerous goods : —Benzoline and all other dangerous Bank Notes. Maps. oils, bisulphide of carbon, blasting powders, bleachBills of Exchange. Marble Goods. ing liquids, bromine, cartridges, chloride of sulphur, Carriages. Musical Instruments. cotton gunpowder, dynamite, fireworks, fluoric acid, Castings. Notes or. Securities for fog signals, fusees, gasoline, gazogen, gun cottou, Cattle. payment of Mone} r. gunpowder, lucifer matches, muriatic acid, or spirits China. Orders for ditto of salts, naphtha, naphthaline, nitrate of iron, nitric