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Temuka Leader, Issue 1515, 5 June 1886, Page 1

Major Atkinson andthk Botoubr.— The following good story lias ' reached us r(Taranaki News), and our informant Touches for ils accuracy A few d»y»..ago, a local butcher was altemp'iug to make out bis halfyearly balance sheet, but, after numerous attempts, be had to give up in d-sguat. He went to the shop door, and hailed a passer by who was a stranger to bins, and asked the stranger “if he was any good at figures:” Tha ■ stranger hesitated for a moment, and replied : “Yes, I think I can do something at figures.. Why ?” Butcher: “Because I’m puzzled ovat my balance-sheet: I can’t get it right. Ho you mind helping me Stranger; “Oh, yes ; I’ll try what j ean do.” They entered tha shop, and, after about.an boar’s hard work, the balance-sheet was brought put right. Tha grateful shop-keeper asked'the stranger how much he was in his deb’, and received the reply : “ Nothing whatever. I have sometime* ■■ been in difficulties with figures myself. Good day.” And with that the stranger departed: The shopman, pointing to the je ceding figure of bis benefastor, asked ~an acquaintance who the stranger was, and was dam-founded at the reply “Why, that’s MajjrAtkinsonl” FliiiAnd Bugs, beetles, insects, roaehei, ants. bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by “ Bough on Bata." Kempthorne, Prosier and 00., Agents, Christchurch. S Mr C. C. Bowen (Christchurch), has received advices from London re the Midland Railway, which show that a : l difficulties on the side of the company have been removed. Catarrh of thb Piaddbr —Stinging irritation, inflammation,. all ~Kidney and s milar Complaint*, cured p-dba.” Druggii i Aemotaorue, Prosser and Co., ■ Agvßta Chri’-cSaro .. .Charles 'Milliar, t]ie expressman who was Injured-by aton’fs fr.iiii the blast in Howling street, has *«rved a writ on the corporation claiming £SOO damages,