Buller ; He had offered Otupai to Mr Robert Tanner twelve months be&. fore he raced him for £200, ■ but the horse had in the":' meantime won some races before being adver-' " tised for sale by Mr -MillerVf^Witi-' ness hdd offered O'tdp'ai ; 'td" /BKflai®' Tomoana when Jjl two-redr old id* £$(&£ and he again offered it ai tne' saffierpricqt when a three-yeAr pld. , His wife 'pfferW him £1000 for the horse ;beforeJtKey-wer^. married, or before they were engaged.' He did not tell her he could not,. s^Jl Oiupai. No reserve .price was, [fixed s tm tne morning of. the sale. Juat, before the sale came off lie told Mr Miller that he put. a reserve; of L £6oo on Otupai, and £400 on Tawera. On the back of the slip, of paper he sent) to Price there might have; been the reserve price; but he thought not. He merely tore a leaf out of his pocket-book, and did not look to ace if there was writing on the back pffhe §Up> He either wrote that the p'ricfe^^KS horses could Btand over till the Wanginiut and Taranaki racer dTthjit Jimmy Munn's ; share only need ri<it ; be ; paid' ; unj;il itftef those rades. Kaienaj a native, 1 'eaid he would like to buy Tdwera* WitneßSrwid the price would be too high for hifii/ adding, "You had better buyx>ri'e !i pf the young ones, Karena." Kareha said he ; was going to ; buy Otupal for iAirenei 1 arid that he would like 'to : buy ( Tawera for himself. No price was named. Witness^ told Karena if he bought a young Mono" and paid one-half he would give him tiitle to pay the other half. After theflalawitnejtaj; said to Karena "What business- h^dryou to buy Tawera whenyoii had nQj^q^yl" He Baid, " I'll get Renata : to pay_the money." The £700 for Otupai \yas paid; by Airene. She said it was^Kea^p'&l money. Renata came out to him on the morning of the sale, and said, tf WKy :do you not let the girl have the horse 1 What do we know about sales V WiW. ness. said the horses. must go, to t .thja. hammer. No price' was named. '"' ''■ By Mr Sainsbury : Witness never made Price a present of a gold chain direcUy or indirectly. 