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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2542, 25 October 1888, Page 2

A meeting of the Waikato .T<;ckey Club will be held at Cambridge »n~ Saturday. A special older of the Hamilton Borough Council will be found in our advertising page. A meeting to arrange for Boxing Day Sports on Sydney Square is called for Saturday evening. S. McLeknon will personally attend at his Hamilton shop, during the time of clearing sale. See advertisement. Watches cleaned for 5s ; glasses fitted, (id each. All work guaranteed as usual. Is connection with the share boom of the Guinness and Allsopp companies, the following good story is told. The members of a certain firm including partners, bookkeepers, clerks, and even the office boy applied for shares in one of the companies. The applications wove dated from the private addresses of the various men. These severally described themselves "gentlemen," "merchants," and so on, but the office boy was at a loss to say what he was. At last, remembering that when the clerks worked late he had to go out and get supplies of tea, and bread and buttor for them, he described himself as a "refreshment contractor." Out of the bevy of partners and clerks, the office boy was the only one who got shares allotted to him.