WHAT THE KING PAYS FOR HIS CIGARS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 130, 23 May 1908, Page 4

WHAT THE KING PAYS FOR HIS CIGARS.

King Edward, who is a connoisseur in tobacco, has just placed aitli a New York firm of lobacco-brokera an order for 300 cigars which in point of price will lie slightly in excess of what; llis .Majesty paid some two years ago, when his bill for 1,000 cigars was .C7o<l. Fur the 000 above menlioiud he will pay .C-IDO, but it is not likely that they will excel, even if they equal in quality, the famous 1,000, which took three months ill the making. " There no exaggeration as to tho pik* or the expense incurred in tlu> manufacture,'' said a well-known American authority cin cigars iho oilier day.

"King Edward paid -C750 fur 1,01)1) cigar*, ami the margin of profit even at that unprecedented price was exceedingly small. The manufacturer was eager to gain the prestige of having served Royalty and went to extraordinary expense. 'l'lie were Sin. in length, and at the thickest part in the middle lin. in diameter. They were made ot the Jinest Vuclta Aliajo tolmcco. The wav in which these Koyal cigars were manufactured is extremely interesting Kaeli leaf passes through the haud H 01 two 'selectors,' and it required the examination of thousands cf leave, to obtain those that were uniform in color and in size, and free from large veins.