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Temuka Leader, Issue 2601, 30 December 1893, Page 3

The Coal war in England, says a London despatch of November 12, has ceased to be a question pf economics and become one of common humanity. All the horrors of a famine are now raging in the mining districts. The newspapers are filled daily with the appalling story of death, destruction, and mute endurance. One community of two hundred families existed two or throe weeks ou two meals a week of plain bread supplied by char I*- 1 *- This pitiful ration is übYf o*** down to one meal a week, u The g e p arS) j u an interview 9U -.oVemberl, intimated that the Grand Dube Alexis of Russia, has arranged a treaty between Russia, France, and Spain, under which the latter’s ultimate occupation of Tangier, Morrocco, is provided for. If this is not carried out these Powers have determined that in no event shall Great Britain occupy Tangier, no matter what it costs to prevent it.

is a pretty conceit for here and there a stray trader to think his imports of the “ Nebuchadnezzar,” the “ Gonbung,” or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys 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 atJßellamy’s, and the name cf the next bank to reconstruct in Australia. The Waterbury does not do this. It simply keeps correct time, and goes on doing so.