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Sir Harry Atkinson, the treasurer who carried the chief protectionist duties, used to disclaim being either a protectionist or a free-trader. The net result of various conflicts has been a tariff which is protectionist, but not highly protectionist. The duties levied on New Zealand imports represent twenty-four per cent. of the declared value of the goods.

In fact first and last, running through the whole extent of our outfit, I can say with some pride that there is not a single arrangement which I would have had altered. An Emperor penguin was found on the Cape well advanced in moult, a good specimen skin. Atkinson found cysts formed by a tapeworm in the intestines.

Here the army rested for one day, and made comfortable provisions to carry the wounded, after having consigned the remains of John Short, who had been killed the day before, to mother Earth, with the honors of war. In the meantime, Gen. Atkinson arrived with his regulars and the brigades of Generals Posey and Alexander; and on the 28th of July, took up the line of march with Gen.

There is, perhaps, nothing more uneasy than those sensations which the French call the mauvaise honte, nor any more difficult to conquer; and poor Atkinson would, I am persuaded, have mounted a breach with less concern than he shewed in walking across a room before three ladies, two of whom were his avowed well-wishers. Though I do not entirely agree with the late learned Mr.

One evening, as we scholars were returning from a walk, Chloe started a hare, which we surrounded and captured, and carried in triumph to oily Mrs. Atkinson, who begged us a play-day for our success. “On Easter Sunday Mr. Storey always treated us to ‘Pasche eggs.’ They were boiled hard in a concoction of whin-flowers, which rendered them beautifully purple.

It is upon yours and my children's account that I principally rejoice." Mrs. Atkinson rose from her chair, and jumped about the room for joy, repeating, Turne, quod oplanti divum promittere nemo Auderet, volvenda dies, en, attulit ultro. Amelia now threw herself into a chair, complained she was a little faint, and begged a glass of water.

"I thought you knew my friend Mr Newland?" observed Atkinson, rather fiercely. "Oh! really I quite I beg pardon. Good morning, Mr Newland; you have been long absent. I did not see you at Lady Maelstrom's last night." "No," replied I, carelessly, "nor will you ever. When you next see her ladyship, ask her, with my compliments, whether she has had another fainting fit."

It came back again in 1879 as a Hall-Atkinson-Whitaker combination. Hall retired in 1881, but Atkinson and Whitaker, helped by his advice, continued to direct it to the end. Now for its opponents. Rallying under Sir George Grey in 1876, the beaten Provincialists formed a party of progress, taking the good old name of Liberal.

Upon which the innocent cried out, "La! how can people tell such fibs? a great tall man told my papa you was taken very ill at Mrs. Somebody's shop, and my poor papa presently ran down-stairs: I was afraid he would have broke his neck, to come to you." "O, the villains!" cries Mrs. Atkinson, "what a stratagem was here to take away your husband!"

Ellison very gravely, "I do not understand one word of what you mean." "Upon my honour, you astonish me," said Amelia; "but I have done." "Nay then," said the other, "I insist upon knowing what you mean." "Why, what can I mean," answered Amelia, "but your marriage with serjeant Atkinson?" "With serjeant Atkinson!" cries Mrs. Ellison eagerly, "my marriage with a serjeant!" "Well, with Mr.