Established about three and a half years ago in Shanghaj_as wine merchants, the firm of Messrs. Gande, Price & Ca. have already earned a substantial reputation both here and in the ports along the China coast for the general excellence and reliability of the beers, wines, and spirits sold by them. The evidence of this is in the recent extensions of their premises and plant which the firm. have had to make as to meet the public demand, and in the fact that a day or two ago Mr. Price left here to open a branch at Hongkong. The finm hold so many agencies for the colony that they have thought it advisable to work them under personal management. A visit to Messrs, Gande, Price and Co.'s premises is w revelation of the extent and completeness of thei business, which was originally tran acted in No. 34, Nanking Road, and now extends to the ground-floor and godown of No. 32, and No. 35, con rising three large godowns, one large ttling room, and, five storage rooms for wines: Mr. Gande has had fourteen years' experience of the trade; Mr. Price eight years in Shanghai—six in the wine tmde—and eight at home, it being claimed that the members of the firm have the longest experience of anyone in the trade in North-China. The new premises include a bottle-washing department, where some 2,500 bottles can be daily prepared for re-filling. A great deal of additional storage room has also been gained, there being accommodation for bottling and storing some 300,000 bottles. The beer and stout, from Messrs. Ind, Coope & Ca., Messrs. Bass & Ca., and Messrs. Reid & Ca., is received in huge butts, holding about 105 gallons each. After' remaining stationary for about a month the liquors are bottled, and then stored in bins, which hold about a thousand bottles each, for three or four months, when they are ready for consumption. Some. idea of the extent of the bottling department may be gained from the statement that the stock of empty bottles at present mounts up to over 130,000; bottles are coming in daily to the number of between 1,000 and 2,000; corks and capsules are ordered in batches of 50,000 or 100,000 ata time; whilst such an apparently unimportant item as_sealing-wax is received in consignments of 15 cwt. oraton. In the wine and spirit department, now confined to No. 32, the purchaser is afforded the choice of some twenty brands of whisky alone; in wines, imported from France, America, and Australia, the range is still greater; whilst in beer and stout the productions of England, Ireland, Scotland, America, Germany, and Japan ate available.
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