A DUCAL OPINION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8833, 17 July 1890, Page 4

A DUCAL OPINION.

A leading jeweller, in speaking of the very handsome oat of the Waterbury Watch Company which appeared in a reount issue of the Review, gave your correspondent the following little inoident illustrating the popularity and high estimation in whioh the American lowpriced watohes fare held in England. Ho says : " While in England last summer I happened to be in the vicinity of Eaton Hall, Chester, one of the country seats of the Duke of Weßtminstsr, 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 Graoe was aooosted by one of hiß friends, who remarked that there were reported to be several pickpockets preßent, and that he had better look out for bis watoh. The Duke laughingly replied that he was grateful for the warning, as he had a watoh whioh he valued highly, although of small cost and that he would bate to part with it, at the came time pulling out a handsome Waterbury. The master of the hounds informed me that he wore this watoh in preference to all others." This endorsement from one of the' nobility whose inoome is 700,000d0l per annum is not bad for an American product, This is authentio, and la not au advertisement,— Jtwtllera 1 Review. JOHN AVERY ■ tfflw FJymcmtt),