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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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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
large, but in
be so
of #2,000 will
any
.0
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the quantity of rum they are distilling
or the retail
Hongkong
7. vents to take
any
for
2th passages
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
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