ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4692, 11 April 1894, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

It is not often that the arrival of a shipment of goods in New Zealand waters is so generally welcomed as the arrival of the preset parcel ot Waterbury watches. By tho lire on the Ruahinc 3000 Watebbbbts—gold, silver, and nickel—were destroyed, Bird this interruption in the regular inflow has kept the market bare till the landing of the present parcel. Tho Hon. Dr. Men stated in the Legislative Council that 95,000 Anui/r Males . pay the whole oi this colony's taxation, maintains its Ci»il Service, run its railways andpublio works and form tho nucleus of tho colony's prosperity; and yet to this very limited population over 120,000 Watebbdbys have been sold and delivered, and tho shipment UOW raiding consists of 2880 Watebbdbys which is followed by the Elinor Vernon, due 2880 MoitE, all sold already to the wholesale trado who havo been waiting supplies for from threo to four months. Large as those figures are two other shipments are to arrive before Christmas and wo venture to affirm that no other watch can show n sale in New Zea land during tho period covered sinco the Waterbury advent of Ose io Each Hundred Wateiuwrvb. Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly Eend their orders to our agents as quickly as possible