CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884 — Page 191

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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accurately calenited, to

seventy nime

cents &

sixty

eight

Aundredths of

a

cent

$0.79

6A

100

per gallon for Teng-hari, &

cents & think six

1

Gifty

me

of

Aundredths

gallon for Siangles, whereas

cent

per $0.5136

100

Kat

199

hundhed &

me

Indred

twenty flowns fa I think four

gallons, which

is equivalent t

gallon.

about faty cents a

Sir

despatch

G. Bowen states in his

to the Colonial Office

the cost of Chineze

spirit exputed from Hay kong

ranges from thirsty to fak

gallon, &f

it is

evident therefore that there is

likelihood, under the present.

no

scheme, of the Java product

being

bhinese

mbeited

compete witc

able

to

spirits, as

it will be

to

a much higher duty

(14.)

I have, etc.

Ernest Satow

the duty

on

Java gin would

Le

one

of.

couts of

dollar, eighty

cent

in

As wholesale price Java of the latter, which also

rince

cents a

thirsty six hundredth $1.99 34

per gathon.

36

100

goes by

the name

of avract,

was

recently quoted at

at one

hundred

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