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Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1879, Page 4

I NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. • t '\ f KAUWAEBANGA BRIDGE CONj . TRACT. WAIKATO - THAMES RAILWAY. , . . Public" Work* Office, '-':/'. 26th Angjust, 1879. /TENDERS' wrft' be received, at this office ■A. nntil noon on Tuesday, '16th day of September, 1879, for"the above* contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for.P>Wic>Wofi&,7and marked: outside " Tender for. Kauwaeranga Bridge I Contract." , Plariß and specifications may be Bempdf thiß'ofice; at the Publio -Work* Officey Thames ; and at the Public Works Office, .Wellington. ./' ' t : ,*'-"' The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.. . -.-,,' 1 By command. (Bigned> JAMES STEWART, . District Engineer. jmHOS. RUSSELL AND SON?, WATCHMAKERS, LIVBJIPOOi. Wholesale Agent for New Zealand— J. STUART REID, FBA.THB*aaTBH-STKBBT, WbLUNSTON. A large and valuable stock on hand, and to arrive. americatTwatches. lha following extract is from the Exporter of 16th January, 1879, re American vV«tehe*:— "A great deal has been, written and said with respect to- the assumed merits' oi American machine-made watches, and their superiority to those o( Hand manufacture. It is therefore somewhat singular to find that the Americans themselves are quite so satisfied with their home' product ons a** might be expected. Perhaps, like the Cheap Jack's razors, these watches are made only to •'"sell." The following comparison between American and Swiss makers appears in the New York Tribune :— " It is no doubt true that American watches are made by machines, but it is also true of all watches, and the tools by which each part is made aie almost identical everywhere. In American watches the parts are left as they come from the machine, and the company > claims that any attempt to finish them by hand injures them. Jn Switzerland, on the contrary, there are workmen who can finish the parts and improve them. One mystery is. that if every part 0? the American watch is made by a machine, .and every piece so made is perfect, how a dozen qualities are made with the same machines. If the statement.be true, evory -watch -should be perfect, whereas they do not pretend that, the lowest 'grade' is equal to the highest, nor do they 83il them at the tame price. Jn thj Swiss watches, on the other hand, the machine-work being the same, tbe quality and price depend entirely upon the finish, care, and adjustment given afterwards by skilful workmen. • . - - , " Much the same holds good ia regard t~> the claim that the parts are interchangeable facilitating repairs; and. it can only be explained by the fact tbat the parts, never having been fitted to each other, will fit as well as they ever did, which is, in effect, badly. A strong mainspring makes the watch go, and the frictions inevitably ) educe some, while they aggravate other, oi the original defects. The abrasion of ths edge, or wear of the cutting- tools when in use, renders it impossible to produce pivots or pinions absolutely of the same size for any length of time, and readjustments, which must ba constant,- are tally as difficult, even if possible. It is, then, absolutely necessary for any good result that each piece or part shall be fitted to its place, as is done in Switzerland. Mr. Jules Jurgenson, a well-known authority, says In a recent pamphlet on the ' Use of Machines in the Manufacture of Watches' :— ' However perfect a machine may be, it must also have the supervision of a conscientious and skilful workman^ because wear and deterioration will otherwise soon introduce defects in the products, all thg more dangerous because untuspected, and perhaps impossible to correct. Pieces of a certain size, relatively strong and solid, may no doub: b*- sufficiently well finished by a special machine ; but it cannot be so with small parts, which must be fitted with perfect accuracy, and wbicb, if not exact, ruin tbe whole work/ This is common sense, and in accord with all mechanical experience. "With these facts it is easy, tp explain the action of the jury which exonerated the conductor of the train on the Pan-Handle Railroad on which fifteen persons were kilted by' a late accident. He stated that he carrirda Waltham watah, P. 8. Bartlett, No. 8t"4,820, which had stopped before but had been lately ' fixed '—probably some * interchangeable ' piece had been put in— and had been set that morning, b-t proved to be twenty minutes flow; so that he had in reality but four minutes, instead of 34, as he supposed, to reach a point of safety, it may be further stated, and it is susceptible of proof, th&t our largest retailers in the city do not look with favor on American watches, nor on their performance ; and while some of them will not sail, them -at all, others do so only upon compulsion; wben their customers demand them. The reasons for this course are those aireidy given. ' '■ - " As a further illustration of the effects, of loose statements, which ara made and not refuted, may be cited the report of a speech made lately at the West, by a high diijnltary of the United States Government, in which he said, 'We are nqw sending watches made in Illinois and New hngland to people at tbe foot of the Alps, who fiaye themselves been manufacturers of watches for 800 years.' His authority for such an extraordinary statement he does not unfortunately quote, and some of his hearers probably believed* it, though it his no foundation in I aef. "The claim of American manufacturers that their watches are produced, by machinery, while those of foreign workmen are made by hand, is unwarranted ; the most elaborate machinery 13 employed in making the Swios watch; but in the case of the Bwiss watch the best work beglna where the machine leaves off; skilled labor steps in and creates a finished work of art." . ' *„:'!' •VTE'W 'ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WELLINGTON SBCTIOR. TIME-TABLE. ONj AND AFTER Sirs JANUARY, 1879. weeFdays. OUT. Trains leave Wellington for Featherston at 7.40 aan. and 3 pan., arriving at ITetthexßton at 11 ajn. and 930 p Jn. respectively.: Trains leave Wellington for upper Hutt at 7.40 ajn.; 12.20, 3.0, 4.45, and 5.35 p.m. Only second-class passengers ara conveyed by the 5.35 pan. train. The trains arrive at Upper Hutt in 1 hour 5 minutes. Trains leave Wellington for Lower Hutt at 7.40 and 9.9o aan.; 3&20, 3.0,' 4.45, and 535 pan.; also, at US pan. on Saturdays, and U Jit pan. On Wednesdays and Saturdays. A train leaves Upper Hutt for Cross Creek at 7.2 sun. daily. W. Trains leave Featherston at 9.6 ajn. and 330 p jn., reaching Wellington at 1120 and 6*35 pan. respectively. Trains leave Upper Hutt for Wellington At 6.30 ajn. (workmen's train, second passengers only), 8.10, and 11.5 ajn. ; 2.35 and 5.20 p jn. Trains leave Lower Hutt for Wellington at 7.6, 8.50, 10J0, and 11.40 ajn. ; 8.10 and stt p jn. : , also, at 2 pan. on Saturdays,* and JXSS panitos" Wednesdays and Saturdays. I A train leaveß the Summit for Upper Hatt at 5.4 pjn. daily. . ■ BUNDAYS. OUT. Trains leave Wellington for Lower Hutt at 9.40 ajn. ; 2.30 and 5 pjn. ; for Upper Hutt at 9.40 ajn. and 5 pan. IN. Trains leave Upper Hutt for Wellington at 9.26 ft.ni. and 4.45 pjn.; Lower Hutt at 10 J.0 ajn. ; 3 J.0 and 5.40 jp jn. - All trains will call at any intermediate Btation to take or set down-, when required, on notice being given to the* guard. NOTICE. piOBB A*D CO.'S MAIL COACH EP. Ist Coach. 2nd Coach. Wellington, dep. per train ... 7.40 a.m. 3.0 p.m. Featherston 11-' o am. 6.12 p.m. Masterton ... ... 3' 0 p.m. 10. 0 p.m. Masterton ... ... '5145 11.15 am. Featherston ... . ... 9. 0 am. 310 p.m. Wellington ... ' ...12.10 am. 6.25 pan. NAPIER SERVICES. Monday, Wednesday, Monday, Wednesday, i and Friday. and Friday. Masterton- 3.15 p-m. Napier, dep. 7.35 a.m. Eketahuna ar. 7 p.m.-J Kopua 11.45 a.m. Bketahuna,, dep. fol- Eketahuna 8.30rp-jnr lowing morn-JEkfitahuna, dej-jy folIng 4..*lsajn. lowing mornKopua 2 pjn. Ing 7 a.m. Napier 6.30 p.m. j Masterton 11 aan. HABTWELL, MACARA & CO.. Pb* S. Smith. PROBSER'S TELEGRAPH LINE OF COACHES, Running between Pahautanui and Wellington , - -'.Tjntif JlAßiuij^ Le»Tft Pahautanui, haifrpasf 6 ajn.; Porirua, - quarter to 8 ajn.; Johnaonville, quarter to 9 a.m. v *"*"„. Leave Wellington— Bank Hotel, quarter past, 8 pjn. ; Pier Hotel, 20 minutes past' S . pjn.; Freeman's (Therndon), quarter to 3 p.m. •PBOSSBB * CO., Proprietor..