ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7005, 18 June 1894, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

It is not often that the arrival of a shipment of goods m New Zealand waters is co generally welcomed as the arrival of the present parcel of Waterbury Watches. By the fire on the Ruahine 3000 Watbrburys— gold, silver, and nickel— were destroyed, and this interruptionin the regular inflowI has kept the marke bare till the landing [of the present parcel The Hon. Dr. Pollen tated m the Legislative Council that 95,000 Adult Males pay the whole of this colony's taxation maintain its Civil Service, run its railways and public works, and forms the nucleus of the colony's prosperity ; and yet to this very limited population over 120,000 WATERBURY3 have been sold and delivered, and the shipment now landing consists of 2880 Waterburys, which is followed by the Elinor Vernon, v m a month, with 2880 More, all sold already to the wholesale trade, who have been waiting supplies for from three to four months. Large as these figures are, two other shipments ;are to arrive before Christmas, and we venture to affirm that no other watch oan show a sale m New Zealand during that period covered since the Waterbury advent of One to Each Hundred Watebburys. Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly Bend their orders to our agents as quickly &b possible. WATERBU7 V WATCH CO., Bowd an d Crawford Streets, Duhedin