ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9681, 16 May 1894, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

It i 3 not often that the arrival of a shipment of goods in New Zealand waters is so generally welcomed as the arrival of the present parcel of Waterbury watches. By the lire on the Ruahine 3000 WjVterburys— gold, silver, and nickel— were destroyed, aud this interruption in the regular Inilow has kept the market bare till tho landing of the present parcel. The Hon. Dr. Pollen stated in the Legislative Council that 95,000 Adult Males pay the wholo of this colony's taxation, maintains its Civil Service, runs its railways aud public works, and forma the nucleus of the colony's prosperity j and yet to this very timited population over 120,000 WATERBURYS have been sold and delivered, and the shipment now landing consists of 2SSO WATERBURYS, which Is followed by the Elinor Vernon, due in a month with 2SBO More, a'l sold already to the wholesale trade, who have been waiting supplies for lrom three to four months. L'irge ns these figures are, two other shipments are to arrive before Christmas, and we venture to affirm that no other watch can Bhow a sale in New Zealand during the period covered since the Waterbury advent of One to Each Hundred Waterburts Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly send their orders to our agents as qnickly as passible. WATERBURY WATCH CO., Bond and Crawford Streets, Dunedin. so