THE GIN MARKET.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 664, 27 November 1902, Page 20

THE GIN MARKET.

An important movement- has ■taken place in the gin market. London advices dated September 5 state that'..the niarket for Geneva in Rotterdam was/excited at that date owing to the probability . jof : an in- ■. crease in the tax on spirits.:. -': Messrs Blan- , kenheym and Nolet wrote Jthat'pthbte- had been a rise in the market), hnd. 'they, instructed their London agents peither to quote nor sell without hearing frdni them. Since then a cable has been . rjeceiyed 'in j Sydney adviring'- that a rise..Of 9d\por.'base 4 Las .taken place in/'Key-.-gin. : This, caused/ speculative purchasing), about. ,1,000 cases ’ being-bought up locally. . Holders ask 12s 6d for 16-bottle, thete being;-very few 15*s available at the sametfigure ; 18’s'andt, 20’s, are unobtainable onspot, . nor/ are/ there any supplies, as far at; can be ascertained, on the water. - / 'a