ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION

West Coast Times, Issue 913, 26 August 1868, Page 2

ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION

Tins Day. Cakei- and Gillie.-, at Louisson and Co.'s Bond, at 12 o'clock — Tobacco and cigars. G. W. BiNNEY, on tho premises, at 11 o'clock sharp — The furniture aud household ell'ecls of Mr C. Harris, at the cottage adjoiningWest Coa^t Times OflL-e, Weld street.

Lord Cairns, the new Chancellor, and Lord Chelmsford, the lalo Lord Chancellor, have, strange to &ay, dividod the woolsack between them. Whilst tlio former got the wool, the latter has got tho sack. Jack Baker being examined in an important case, counsel found it extremely difficult to cxlivcfc the whole truth from hnn. His ingenuity and ignorance combined enabled him to evade the question. At last, the lawyer, losing patience, exclaimed, " Why, Mr B— , do you prevaricate so much?" Jack, supposing he rcfemd to his peculiar manner of utterance, eonvulsocf the Court aud audience by replying indignantly, " I Avould like to know how a fellow can help prevaricating, when lie hag lost tlivoo of his front tooth f"

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KoticiM of Births Man-laire*. anil Death.* will lip charged Five Shillings, which «üm entities Mich advert iocment to rt'-appcnr in the Summary Kilitions for Europe.