ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 17 May 1894, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.

It is not oiten that the arrival of a shipment oi goods in New Zealand waters is so generally welcomed as the arrival of the present parcel of Waterbury watches. By the fire on the Buahine 3000 Waterburys—gold, silver, and nickel—were destroyed, and this interruption in the regular inflow has kept the market bare till the landing .of the present parcel, The Eon. Dr. Men stated in the Legislative Council that. 95,000 Anew Males , . pay the whole of this colony's taxation, maintains its Oil Service, run its railways and public works and form the nucleus of tho colony's prosperity; and yet to this very limited population over 120,000 Watkubtovs have beon sold and delivered, and tho shipment now anding consists of ,i 2880 Waterbimb whichls followed by tho Elinor Vernon, due ■i 2880 More, all so) i already to tho wholesale trade who have been waiting supplios for from three to tour months. Large as these figures are two othor shipments aro to arrive before Christmas and we venture to affirm that no other watoh can show a' sale in Now Zqa land during the period covered since the Waterbury advent of One to Each Hundred Waiemorvs, Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly send their orders to our agents as quickly as possiblo