Consumption of spirits. — Persons who examine the public accounts, and have a faith that can receive impossible figures, must have been in ecstacies, or appalled, as the case may b«», on learning, on the authority of the Board of Trade, thiit the Quantity of home-made spirits retained for consumption in the United Kingdom as beverage, in the iv-t half of the year JBb7, has beeu only about h.df the quail* tity rrqunvd in the ijr&t htut' o\ 186ti. Hut we may be reassured by the corrected pages recently issued. The quantity really was 10.290,006 gallons in the first hulf of 1866 and 10,177,157 gallons in the Grst half of 1867. In England and Scotland there has been a falling off; in Ireland an im'teuse. The quantities of spirits entered for home consumption in the first half of the .year were as lows :— Rum, 1,932,861 proof gallons in 1866, and 2,112,782 gallons in 1867; brandy, 1,324,874 proof gallons in 1866, and 1,450,087 gallons in 1867. Sir R. Napier is gazetted to the Order of the Bath.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 19, 20 June 1868, Page 3
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