TE AR0HA SHARE-MARKET.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1698, 24 May 1883, Page 2

TE AROHA SHARE-MARKET.

Salks — Welcome (half share, l-60th) £25. Colonist, 2s. BOYKItS — Welcome (full share, l-30th), £4S. Premier, Bs. Wcralnko, 2-i 3d. Vermont (full share, l-15th), £15. R. G. MACKY -d , , JOHN BULLOCK j mokei3 - May 22nd, 1883.

Her Great Mistake. — At an early hour Tuesday forenoon a boy about 12 years of age entered a Woodward-avenue store hugging a big rocking-horse in his arms, and as he placed it on the floor lie said to one of the clerks : "Got that in my Christmas stocking. I guess it was brought here." " Yes, that wag sold by us." " An old woman about 60 years old bought it, didn't she?" "I think so." " Kind of a motherly-looking woman who looked as if she didn't know what a boy wanted no'more than pigs can fly ?" "I didn't notice about that. What's the matter with the horse ?" "The horse is all right, but the idea of a boy as big as me fooling around with a hobby horse ! Grandma must have been crazy, I threw out about a dozen hints, but she M r as bent on getting this horse !" '■ And what do you want ?" " Want to trade it of conrse." " For what ?" " Well, I want a seven-shooter revolver," "Don't keep 'em." "Then I want three or four pistols to shoot real bullets." "We have none." "Any bowie knives or Blung-shots ?" "Not one." "Any shot guns?" "No. ? ' "Gob ,auy cannons? "None." "Haven't you got nothing that'll shoot or stab or blow up or smash things ?" "The only articles we have are^in-swords and toy-engines." "Then I'll take about six swords and the rest in engines. I guess I know where I can trade the swords for a toy pistol, and then I'll be fixed to make things lively. That's jiist'like an old grandma. She go and pay $4 for a- thing like this when twenty shillings would have bought a, pistol and enough- ponder- and bullets to pepper, every pane of glass" put of the, < . \J_ ,fi-i>Y f\'>.; ( /»■>:, r {- -.