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Otago Witness, Issue 1951, 11 April 1889, Page 9

fTIHE PARSON'S ADVICE. He was a clergyman, and hailed from England, and this is what he said to some friends in the smoking room of the Tarawera on a very recent trip : " Yes, I carry a Waterbury, and have always found it quite reliable. I'm fond of fishing, and often wade a great deal when playing a salmon or landing a big trout. Every time I used to get my watch wet formerly it cost me twelve and sixpence to put it right again. I bought a Waterbury, and although it has often been under water, its accuracy has never been affected ; so I have ceased fco carry any other for the last two years." GOOD FURNISHING. When a couple think of getting married, and have finally selected the dovecot — I mean the villa they mean to occupy— the important question of furnishing comes up. Prospective mothers-in law may be expected to give good advice (and, as a general rule, very little else), and after settling the colour of the carpets, uphelstery, perambulator, &c, they are pretty sure to throw in a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil. The reasons are many and various. Headache, toothache, backache, earache — in fact the whole family of aches — find no quarter in a house where St. Jacobs Oil, love, and kisses reign supreme; and many a couple who suffer eternally from the lesser evils that flesh is heir to, only do so because they do not use a remedy as old as the hills, and as sure in its action as a Bank of England^note when the bailiffs are in. ALWAYS THE WAY. If you meet a man on the wharf using strong language because- he has missed the steamer just passing Taiaroa Heads, you can safely wager that he does not carry a Waterbury. People who do are never in a hurry. They walk down leisurely, and catch their boats every time, simply because their watches have been built to show them only " the correct lime," and not to mislead them by an approximation only. The man who, when asked the time, looks at his watch and, after having got a glimpse of the sun's position and gone through a few arithmetical calculations on his fingers, tells you, £Ob, about twenty or twenty-five minutes to one," carries a gold chronograph, or some other " graph," which cost him 20 guineas to buy fi and as much more to keep it going at all. tf£ he owned a Waterbury, his answer woujfiib,^ short, sharp, and correct, sir ; not at.mjjiute.' too fast, and never slow.