A DUCAL OPINION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8832, 16 July 1890, Page 4

A DUCAL OPINION.

A leading jeweller, in speaking of the very handsome out of the Waterbury Watoh Company which appeared in a reount ißsue of the Beviezo, gave your correspondent tbe following little incident illustrating the _ popularity and high estimation in which the American lowpriced watches lure held in England. Ho says: "While in England last summer I happened to be in the vicinity of Euton Hall, Cheater, one of the country seats of the Duke of Westminster, where there was a meeting of yeomanry and some 200,000 people assembled. All were indulging in gaa.es and festivities, the Duke being present in person and mingling freely with the others, when his Grace was accosted by one of his friends, who remarked that there were reported to be several pickpockets present, and that he had better look out for his watoh. The Duke laughingly replied that he was grateful for the warning, as he had a watch which he valued highly , although of small cost and that he would faoto to part WiCQ it, at the earns time pulling out a handsome Waterbury. The niaafor of the hounds informed me that he wore this watoh in preference to all others." Tbio endorse* ment from one of tbe nobility whose inoome is 700,000d0l per annum is not bad for an American product, Thii is autbentio, and is not an advertfoementr- ' JOHN AVERY New Ftysnou&t