MALT, BARLEY, AND SUGAR USED IN BREWING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1967, 14 June 1880, Page 3

MALT, BARLEY, AND SUGAR USED IN BREWING.

Returns on this subject have been presented in compliance wilh an order of the House of Commons. The number of bushels of malt charged with duty in the year 1878 in England was 52,210,214, the amount of duty charged thereon being £7,081,010; in 1879 the number of bushels charged with duty was 46,009,872, and the duty £6,240,088. In Scotland the amount of duty was, in 1878, £423,646; in 1879, £362,020. In Ireland, in 1878, the duty was £462,855 ; in 1879, £392,151. The total for the United Kingdom shows, in 1878, 58,752,934 bushels, with £7,967,512 duty; while in 1879 the quantity was 51,576,890 bushels, and the duty £6,994,259. An account of the quantities of barley imported into the United Kingdom in the years 1878 and 1879 shows that in 1878 the quantity so imported was 14,156,919 cwt,, equivalent in quarters to 3,963,937 ; while in 1879 the quantity was 11,546,3140 wt., equivalent to 3,232,968 quarters. The following returns give the sugar consumed in breweries in the year ending September 30th, 1878 and 18791 n 1878, in London, 40,883,1441 b ; in the provinces, 77,221,3031 b ; in Scotland, 886,4281 b ; in Ireland, 6,451,1161 b ; total in the United Kingdom, 125,441,9911 b. In 1879, the sugar so consumed was in London, 38,090,5131 b ; in the provinces, 73,597,2131 b ; in Scotland, 668,8381 b ; in Ireland, 4,570,4301 b ; total in the United Kingdom, 116,927,0191 b. The total consumption

TEMUKA MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE. The regular monthly committee meeting of the above was held in the reading room on Friday, June 11th. Present—Dr Hayes (president), Messrs McKay, Mendelson, Storey, Gray, Elliott, Qentlemum, Franks, and the secretary. Correspondence was read from the South Canterbury Board of Education, advising that £34 8s lid had boon placed to the credit of the Institute at the bank, being the share allotted to the institute by the Government under the Libraries’ Subsidies Act. Resolved —“ That the president be empowered to arrange for the repairs of the boundary fence.” Mr Mendelson offered to present the institute with a fender for the new fireplace, which offer was accepted with thanks. Resolved—“ That the £SO fixed deposit at present in the bank be refunded for another six months.” Resolved —“That Mr McKay be authorised to arrange with Mr Armstrong for the delivery of a lecture at an early date, in aid of the funds of the institute.” Attention was drawn to the fact that some person or persons were in the habit of abstracting papers from the reading table. The librarian was instructed to stamp all papers immediately on receipt, in order to enable the stolen property to be more readily identified.

of sugar in breweries throughout the United Kingdom during the last twenty-four years was as follows In 1856, 1,790,5201b ; 1857, 2,114.0561b ; 1858, 3,885,6261b ; 1859, 2,886.0761b j 1860, 9,670,8761b ; 1861, 9,365,2361b ; 1862, 8,846,5151b ; 1863, 9,365,6811b ; 1864, 5,274,7461b ; 1865, 5,246,0271b ; 1866, 10.340,8871b ; 1867, 41,134,0161b ; 1863, 37,611,1061b; 1869, 41,980,9491b ; 1870, 29,017,2711b ; 1871, 32,500,7631b ; 1872, 29,398,9571b; 1873, 63,111,2291b ; 1874, 86,018,3971b ; 1875, 99,756,8981b; 1876, 98,143,7321b ; 1877, 90,500,4491b ; 1878, 125,441,9911b ; 1879, 116,927,0191b.