Query Post breaking pagination

Hello,

I am running into an issue where my I am using <?php query_posts(‘showposts=6’); ?>
in order to only display 6 posts per page.

It appears all and well but when I click on any page listed in the pagination generated, the 404 page appears.

I have seen a lot write up on this but have not come to a solution. My code is shown below.

<?php query_posts('showposts=6'); ?><?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

							<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('clearfix'); ?> role="article">

								<section class="entry-content">
									<div class="post-image">
									<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'custom-thumb' ); ?>
									</div> <!-- post-image  post image ADDED -->

									<header class="article-header">
										<div class="event-date h2"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Date', true); ?></div>

										<h1 class="h2"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
									</header> <!-- end article header -->

									<!-- <?php the_content(); ?> REMOVED and replaced with the excerpt below-->
									<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

								</section> <!-- end article section -->

								<footer class="article-footer">
									<p class="tags"><?php the_tags('<span class="tags-title">' . __('Tags:', 'bonestheme') . '</span> ', ', ', ''); ?></p>

								</footer> <!-- end article footer -->

								<?php // comments_template(); // uncomment if you want to use them ?>

							</article> <!-- end article -->

							<?php endwhile; ?>

									<!-- bones_page_navi WAS HERE BUT HAS BEEN MOVED. IT IS NOW LOWER IN THE CODE. -->

							<?php else : ?>

									<article id="post-not-found" class="hentry clearfix">
											<header class="article-header">
												<h1><?php _e("Oops, Post Not Found!", "bonestheme"); ?></h1>
										</header>
											<section class="entry-content">
												<p><?php _e("Uh Oh. Something is missing. Try double checking things.", "bonestheme"); ?></p>
										</section>
										<footer class="article-footer">
												<p><?php _e("This is the error message in the index.php template.", "bonestheme"); ?></p>
										</footer>
									</article>
							<?php endif; ?>

						</div> <!-- end #main -->

						<div id="all-events" class="clearfix">
							<?php if (function_exists('bones_page_navi')) { ?>
											<?php bones_page_navi(); ?>
									<?php } else { ?>
											<nav class="wp-prev-next">
													<ul class="clearfix">
														<li class="prev-link"><?php next_posts_link(__('&laquo; Older Entries', "bonestheme")) ?></li>
														<li class="next-link"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer Entries &raquo;', "bonestheme")) ?></li>
													</ul>
											</nav>
									<?php } ?>