ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY.
It is not often that the arrival ot a shipment ot goods in Now Zealand waters is so generally welcomed as tho arrival ot the present parcel of Watcrbury watches, By tho tiro on the liuahiue 3000 WATEOTDItYS—goId, silver, and nickel—were destroyed, and this interruption in tho regular inflow has kopt the market haro till the landing of the present parcel. The Hon. Dr. Pollen stated in the Legislative Counqil that 95,000 Anon Mnes pay the whole of this colony's taxation, maintains its Ci v il Service, run its railways and public works and form tho nucleus of the colony's prosperity; and yet to this very limited population over 120,000 WiijiiraonYs have been sold aud delivered, and tho shipment now aniling consists of 2880 WATEitura which is followed by the Elinor Vernon, due 2880 Mode, all sold already to the wholesale trade who lmvo been waiting supplies for from three to four months. Large as these figures aro two other shipments are to arrive before Christmas and we venture to affirm that no other watch can show a sale in New Zfa land (luring tho period covered since tho Watnrbury advent of One to Each Hundred Waterhuhts. Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly send their ordors to our agents as quickly as possiblo
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4738, 5 June 1894, Page 3
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218ARRIVAL OF THE NEW WATERBURY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4738, 5 June 1894, Page 3
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