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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 230, 22 June 1908, Page 2

Some novel bidding was witnessed at Wavorley recently, says an exchange, when an impounded horse was put for auction to pay the expenses of his ,board' and lodging. Bidding was started at."a bob a leg." From'. 4s. the figuro rose to 6s. by sixpenny bids. Such wild speculation, howover, could not, last, and threepenny, bids wero resorted to. These were abandoned when' the,, price reached Ss\, and a cautious penny a time was A indulged in till 12s. was reached. The appeal in the animal's eyes fetched the crowd again, and a rapid Cro of half-penny bids was directed at the auctioneer, who, amid great amusement, finally knockod tho horso clown at the fancy price of 14s. Counsel in the libel action Boxshall v. Schlesinger, heard at the Supreme- Court in Christchurch, had several flights of oratory, in which an almost Oriental imagery was indulged in, says the "Press." "The defendant," said Sir. Alpers, " must go through life with beeswax in his eyes, and a clothesprop on his noso if ho does not know tho character of .tho publication he sells." Referring to the fact that the plaintiff aid riot give evidence, Mr. Alpers playfully suggested to the jury that it was for fear of Sir. AYiiford's cross-examiuaiion. "But, gentlemen," ho said, " Samson is unaccountably tired, and refuses to make sport for tho Philistines!" Mr. Wilford, in his a'ddress, said that tho jaso was an instance of "using a battle-axo. to sharpen a lead-pencil,* when a pen-knifo : would have done as wall."