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CHINESE BRANDY. Some remarkable evidence was priv en at the Bathurst Police Court the other day when Chun Gun, employed at a Chinese store, was proceeded against for selling Chinese brandy. A constable stated that he saw Chun Gun pouring the liquor into a mug, which another Chinaman, Foo Gee drank. On the premises he foun eight bottles’ of Chinese brandy, and samples of it~were analysed by the overamen analyst. The liquor con tained 233 ‘per cent of alcohol by Weight, equivalent to an alcoholic strength ‘of 49.7 per cent under proof. For the defence it was stated that the liquor in question was Chiniese medi cine, which was given to customers who had pains in the body. Foo Gee had a backache, and was being sup plied with the medicine, which, if ta ken when a person had no pain, was injurious, but the Chinese, if they got that medicine, would not die. Jee Sum, a member of a Chinese firm in Sydney, produced the Custom house entry, in which the liquor was described as medicated spirit. It was used for rheumatism for outward ap pliation or for drinking.He made Tong Sing, a storekeeper at Bathurst, a present of a case containing a do zen bottles in March last, because he had rheumatism. . Mr McKell, the police magistrate, fined Chun Gun £ 30, or four months’ imprisonment ‘with, hard labour, and Too. Gee, for being supplied with the liquor, in an unlicensed house, was fined’ 10s, or 48 hours’ imprisonment.
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Nelson Colonist
Nelson, South Island, NZ
Wed, Mar 24, 1909
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