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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 4

— China is the great snuff-taking country of the world, and there is a snuff there worth the theoretical fancy pri.ee of £20-3,000 a pound which is handed round at the great banquets. Its high value, comes in this way. The rich Chinamen buy the bulk of their snuff from Portugal, where there are families owning private old-time rccipe.s, who sell their snuff at from £W to £150 a pound to the Chinese. Then the Chinaman keeips it many years, ar:d, the legal rate of interest !>3ing 32 per cent, per annum, its theoretical value scon increases. The - Chinese carry it in beautiful bottles of porcelain and agate, miraclcs of art, which aro worth from half a sovereign. to £200 each, .. - 4 .