CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12] — Page 454

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The soldiers spirit in the retail rum can buy this - shops at four - shillings a gallon. The Treasurer believes that the quantity that is actually being distilled at this moment cannot be far short of twenty-five thousand ... gallons a quarter. On this a licence fee of two cents a gallon cannot be considered excessive.

Perhaps the quantity distilled in future quarters will not be so large, but in any case #2,000 will be.

451 the quantity of rum they are distilling or the retail price at which it sells in Hongkong.

I do not think it necessary to take notice of the concluding passages in Messrs Jardine Matheson & Company's letter in which they attribute the resolution of the Governor in Council in this matter to animus against their local Agent Mr Keswick.

8. never, I believe, be more than a charge of three pence or four pence a gallon on this rum.

In their letter to Your Lordship Messrs Jardine Matheson and Company avoid mentioning the proposal to license a distillery for Chinese spirits in the Colony which is now before the Council, and when the Treasurer's recommendation, as to the annual fee that should be charged in that case, has been considered.

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441 The soldiers spirit in the retail rum can buy this - shops at four - shillings a gallon. The Treasurer believes that the quantity that is actually being distilled at this moment cannot be far short of twenty-five thousand ... gallons a quarter. On this a licence fee of two cents a gallon cannot be considered excessive. Perhaps the quantity distilled in future quarters will not be so large, but in any case #2,000 will be. 451 the quantity of rum they are distilling or the retail price at which it sells in Hongkong. I do not think it necessary to take notice of the concluding passages in Messrs Jardine Matheson & Company's letter in which they attribute the resolution of the Governor in Council in this matter to animus against their local Agent Mr Keswick. 8. never, I believe, be more than a charge of three pence or four pence a gallon on this rum. In their letter to Your Lordship Messrs Jardine Matheson and Company avoid mentioning the proposal to license a distillery for Chinese spirits in the Colony which is now before the Council, and when the Treasurer's recommendation, as to the annual fee that should be charged in that case, has been considered. Dec:
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The soldiers

spirit in the retail rum

can

buy this -

shops at four

- shillings a gallon. The Treasurer believes

a

that the quantity that is astically being distilled at this moment cannot be

far short of twenty-five thousand __ gallons a quarter. On this a licence fee

of two cents a

gallon

considered excessive.

cannot be

Perhaps the quantly

distilled in future quarters will not

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be so

of #2,000 will

any

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the quantity of rum they are distilling

or the retail

Hongkong

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any

for

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price

at which it sells in

I do not think it necessary

notice of the concluding

in Messro Jardine ebbatheson

Tarmerned Company's letter in which they

attribute the resolution of the Governor

Kim

Council in this matter to

animus

case the

fee

Keswick.

more.

8.

never, I believe, be

than a charge of three pence or four

pence a gallon

6.

On

this rum.

In their letter to

Your

Lordship Mess Jardine Matheson and Company avoid mentioning the

an

against their local Agent Wr

et proposal

to license

distillery for Chinese spirits Colony

is o

now

in the

before the Conneil, and

when the Treasurer's recommendation, as

to the annual fee that should be charged

in that case, has been considered

Dec:

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