SALE OF WINES.
H — • — - > London; June 20. The wiw sales on behalf of the Red Cross werAa remarkable success, large ly owing. > the King's contributions. Tlie saJes '«re held at the Wool Exchange, an occupied a week. Prices were phepmenal. A bottle of the King's ruV dated 1820,, fetched £50, and three, ottles of Jamaica rum, 1776, £25. Cha fiagn© from the . Boyal cellars inclu id Madame Cliquot, 1906, £45 to £B 10s a dozen, and some Ayala atflß26 10s. Several bottles of 1820 pdr given to the King by the late Kin of Portugal, brought £30 a dozen; I pal Tawny port, £52 10a per dozen ; 1 rgeux Latour clarets, £8 to £10 a den; Royal sherry, £11 10s to £16 10s;irhile some bottles of Curacoo brought 00 per dozen.. Owing to the self-denyfe ordinance l^egarding intoxicating 1 iovs which- the King inaugurated is presumed that most of these wps will be kept to celebrate the jotq jnation of peace.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14646, 2 July 1918, Page 3
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