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Temuka Leader, Issue 2561, 28 September 1893, Page 3

Mashonaland.—On this subject Mr Robert Williams, in an interview with a representative of the Pall Mall Gazette, states that there are huge holes in the ground, indicating ancient wprkings, all over\ the country, and that the unknown workers, whoever they may have been, must have taken by the most primitive kit"' of hand cruahings hundreds o£ th*--ounces of gold from a h oli usand.- of miles long by »•- . ~« ot country 2000 a word *' J ' eu to 20 miles broad. In .": -i »it Williams, as an expert and a mining engineer, is enthusiastic about the country and the future of the Chartered Company. And when the gold shall have made a market for the country and have established a transport system thereto, he prophesies a wonderful development of agricultural enterprise, for the country will grow anything and everything.

f E'ETTY CONCEIT. The enormous sales of the Waterbury have led firms who do not care for a steady turn over at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continent for cheap inferior “tickers”—we do not call them watches —with which to “ run the Waterbury.” These possess one virtue only—that of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent on his outlay. That they should keep time is a matter of no moment, so long as they resemble the Waterbury in outward appearance, style of casing, etc., with sufficient closeness to deceive a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing this often say to us “ W hat do we care ; we can make five shillings a watch more on them than we can on yours ; and as to keeping time, well, our troubles about that.” Buyers requiring reliable watches can trust the Waterbury, and the public requiring the correct time should see that they get it. The gents’ or ladies’ Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable ; whilst the nickel varieties are so well known that they require no further recommendation. It is a pretty conceit for here and there a stray trader to think his imports of the “Nebuchadnezzar,” the “Gonbuntr,” or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburya are always afloat for New Zealand. The real "strength of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but the correct time. We sometimes see “ tickers ” —we still bar them any other title—offered for sale which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whole of the celestial bodies on their faces, but keep time, or profess to, tell you the state of the money market, the amount of any particular member’s indebtedness at Bellamy’s, and the name rf the next bank to reconstruct in Australia. Tho Waterbury does not do this. It simply keeps correct time, goea on, doipg so.