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are applicable or have reference ; and such particulars shall be renewed as often as the same or any part thereof ia obliterated or destroyed. 30. Any person in or upon any railway carriage or station beiui* in a state of intoxication, or committing any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and to removal from such carriage or station as soon as shall be practicable. 31. No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney carriage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall ply for hire within the railway premises without a license in writing from the General Manager or other authorized officer; and any person offending contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 32. No person will be allowed to come upon any railway platform for the purpose of removing any passenger or luggage, unless required by a passenger and engaged by him for such purpose, and no person will be allowed to come upon any railway premises for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any person attempting to evade or being guilty of a breach of this section, or not quitting the premises when required by a Station Clerk or other railway servant, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 33. Any person, unless authorized by the General Manager, who shall post or stick any placard or bill within or on any of the buildings or fences connected with a railway, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 34. Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly or in 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 engine, carriage, truck, wagon, or other property belonging to a railway, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, in addition to a sum equal to the cost incurred in repairing any such damage. 35. Any person selling, or attempting to sell, any article on any of the premises of a railway, without the consent of the General Manager, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 36. No goods will be received for carriage or carried upon a railway, except upon the followingconditions :— (1.) That a " consignment note," on a form to be obtained from the person in charge of the station, properly filled in and signed by or on behalf of the consignor, is handed to the officer taking delivery of the goods at the time of their delivery: (2.) That the person delivering the goods obtains at the same time a written receipt for the same, signed by the officer to whom they are delivered. 37. The Minister will not be responsible for any loss or damage in respect to any goods received for carriage or carried on a railway under any of the following circumstances, that is to say, — (I.) If the above-mentioned consignment note is not delivered with the goods, or the receipt not obtained for the same : (2.) If the goods are wrongly or insufficiently described on the consignment note : (3.) If the goods are allowed to remain on the premises of the railway for more than twelve working hours after their arrival at the station to which they are addressed : (4.) If they are put into packages described as "empties :" (5.) If they are insufficiently or insecurely packed, or if articles liable by breakage or leakage to damage one another are packed in the same package :

(6.) If the loss or damage arises from the act of God, civil commotions, Queen's enemies, or from fire (except from the railway engines or apparatus), or from accidental delays in transit occurring from either of these causes. 38. The following goods are hereby declared to be special goods, within the meaning of " The Public Works Act, 1876 :"— Bank notes. Maps. Bills of exchange. Marble goods. Carriages. Musical instruments. Castings. Notes or securities for Cattle. payment of money. China. Orders for ditto. Clocks. Paintings. Drays. Pictures. Engravings. PigsFurniture. Plated articles Furs. Precious stones. Glass. Sheep. Gold or silver coin. Silks. Gold or silver plate. Slate goods. Gold or silver, rnanu- Stamps. factured. Title-deeds. Gold or silver, un- Toys. manufactured. Trinkets. Horses. Wagous. Jewellery. "Watches. Lace. Writings. Machinery. Any package the contents of which are of higher value than five hundred pounds. 39. The consignment note accompanying any special goods must state them to be " special," and must set forth their nature and value. Unless such statement and declaration is made, the Minister is not responsible for any loss or damage to a greater extent than fifteen pounds in respect to any horse, eight pounds in respect to any neat cattle, fifteen shillings in respect of any sheep or swine, and ten pounds in respect of any package in which any special goods are contained.. All special goods exceeding in value the above-mentioned sums shall be subject to a charge, in addition to the ordinary freight, by way of insurance, according to a scale of rates of insurance to be from time to time published by the Minister in that behalf. The Minister will not be responsible for the contents of packages sent as special goods unless the goods are unpacked and examined by the railway officers; the expense of such examination, unpacking, and repacking to be borne by the consignor. 40. It' the value of any special goods stated on the consignment note appears to the officer receiving the same to be extravagant or fictitious, or if the goods are of a nature to be extraordinarily liable to damage, such officer may refuse to receive them without the instructions of the General Manager. And the General Manager may, by the authority of and on behalf of the Minister, make such special agreement for the carriage of such goods, on such terms as to insurance or otherwise, as he thinks fit; or, if no such special agreement is come to, may refuse to receive or cany such goods on the railway except at the sole risk of the consignor; and, upon notice in writing to the consignor to that effect given to the consignor by the General Manager, the Minister shall not be liable to any claim for loss or damage from any cause whatsoever in respect of suchgoods. Such notice may be served upon the consignor or his agent, or either of them, or may be left at the last known place of abode or business of either of them. 41. Any claim for loss or damage must be 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."