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Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 44

— On a Cold Day. — He : " There's a good deal to be said in favour of* cremation." She (shivering): "Yes, indeed. It's so clean, and nice, and warm \ "

f~i OLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA Won by the Famed BUCHANAN HOUSE OF COMMONS WHISK*. " Owing to the ravages of the phylloxera in tho favoured djstricts of France," says the London Daily Telegraph, "it is an open secret that there is very 1 little good brandy obtainable, and British exhibitors are hoping that they will be able to induce the Parisians to substitute for it a much more wholesome spirit — ■ Scotch whisky. The French are not unapprociative of its qualities, for at the Hygiene Exhibition, in the capital as well as at Troyes, in the champagne country, they awarded GOLD MEDAL and DIPLOMA to purveyors of Scotch whisky to the House of Commons, Messrs James Buchanan and Co. (Glasgow and London). This firm was also highly successful at Glasgow and Melbourne. Scotch whisky may be classed broadly into ' Highland malts ' and • raw grains,' with perhaps a third variety called ' Lowland malt,' which is made in the southern countries. . The Highland comes to us from remote glens, where the purity of tho water is unquestionable, and it is distilled from the best malted barky procurable. It is at this stage that the peat Which is used for the drying kilns impart* the characteristic ciavour." This high-class whisky is kept at every respectable and well-appointed hotel. II may be procured alio from tbe liarting WijM and spirit mwohaatai, —"•;;:.-— & x