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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6244, 17 June 1890, Page 3

The Melbourne Age thinks it is a disgrace to Victoria that the railway regulations authorise the prosecution as a criminal of a person who utilises a return ticket taken out one day for a return journey on the next. It is the person that framed that regulation who ought to be prosecuted, for evidently he had in his mind the fraudulent intent of extorting a second payment for one service from a laggard who missed his train at night. It makes not the slightest difference to the Railway Department whether a man who has paid for his haulage takes half of it one day or another. The average number of travellers will always be the same, and no extra cost is imposed upon the railway service.—This argument fits New Zealand equally well. A BROADCAST BLESSING. The educational force of the Waterbury Watch has been felt all over the world. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia have shared in its civilising and encouraging impulse. The peasant of the Russian Empire, the Kirghis on the eteppes of Asia, the Arab horseman of the desert, and the Egyptian Fellaheen upon the Nile can, and do, boast, of a timekeeper, which for utility, accuracy, and rough service is the peer of, and often more to be relied upon than, any elaborately jewelled pocket piece carried by the nobility or richer classes of their respective countrymen. In Japan, throughout India, in the forests of Brazil, upon the plains of Buenos Ayres, and into the furthest back-blocks of Australia and New Zealand the Waterbury Watch has found its way, and whereover the people are industrious there the Waterbury Watches are worn; there the people are doily becoming more punctual, enterprising, and successful. [II Foe Continuation of Reading Matter See Fourth Page. l.ate Advertlmeraaqints NOTICE. R F. W, STUBS,3 has been Appointed SUB-AGFNT for the Northern Assurance Company in the Timaru District. HARMAN & STEVENS, Agenijs for Canterbury. May, 1590.