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ace. 



weights, and are condemned by critics as good for 

 nothing, would beat the celebrated Arabs at heavy 

 weights for twenty miles, and this is the only 

 country in the world where their worth is ignored. 

 Starting back to the old King's Plate weights, 

 12 st. 2 Ibs., and four-mile heats, the system might 

 be congenial to New Zealanders ; but in these 

 enlightened days, when cruelty to animals is at 

 a discount, no man with the common feelings of 

 humanity would propose to revive our ancient 

 barbarism. 



