fjpHE GOLD DIGGER'S WATCH IT STANDS 80MB VERY ROUGH USAGE. AN ALARMING CAMEL ACCIDENT AT COOLGAItDIE, Mt William Dunn writos as follows to tlio Waterbury Watch Company, Margaretstreet, Sydney, from Crystal Brook, Guyra. Now Bouth Wales :-J'l wish' to givo you information in referenco to the quickwinding Waterbury Watch which I purchased at your establishment in 1892, I have been to the centre of West Australia, prospecting in new country for fifteen months. The watch was all the timo subjected to very rough usage, but still it kept very accurate time.' I was wearing it when A CAMEL BOLTED WITH ME THROUGH THE MAIN STIIEET OF COOLGARDIE. It was a young camel, and had never been ridden beforo. It ran away with mo, and Buddenlj lay down, tho shock being'' somewhat similar to a railway collision; but it never interfered with the watoh. I have been over the " dry blowing " for alluvial gold. It is ono of-the most dirty kinds of work that a watoli can be put to, but it did not interfere in aoy way with my Waterbury,and I must Efty it is A BEAUTUUL TIMEKIiEPERindeed, I would nover think of carrying any other. lam well kuown over there, being odo of tho prospectors of the 1 BriUiant Gold Reef,' 25 miles north of Coolgardie; I am also a well-known New England prospector," ; ' . THE NEW WA'IERBURYS WIND IN FIVE SECONDS. THEY CAN BE REPAIRED AT V NOMINAL COST. IN GOLD-FILLED.iDVER,' OB IfIOKEL " •' CASES. • PBIOEfJ FBOMIBT 6d TO «5 08,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4779, 21 July 1894, Page 3
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251Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4779, 21 July 1894, Page 3
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