Soo 



fm ftOPICAL AGftldUtfUftigt, 



[jAN, 1, 1887. 



I?y Murliincry, Tools, &i'. 



By Suiiilry Debtors 



Ity Pnxliice Unsold on 3uth 

 .Iiiiie 



Since Retailed .■■ 



Hark I'lisolJ ... 



By Cash 



At B.mkers— Dfposit 



Account 

 At Bankers— Cuirent 

 Account 

 In Hand 



By Suspense Account— Tea 

 Planting, &c. 



Tea Planting, ■Sic, Ac- 

 count, ISSl-.'i 

 /.(■■is—lO \)er cent car- 

 ried to Prolit and 

 Lo'<5 Account 



Tea Planting, also of 

 Cocoa & Cardamoms, 

 &c. Account Iss.Vli 



By Pa\ments oi\ Accouiitof Vp- 

 keep for ls8ij-7 



X- s. d. 



1,234 -2 9 



1,53-2 1 9 



2,22s 10 11 



730 1() 



2,3C>5 1 10 



1,803 8 5 



S38 1-2 3 



1,099 15 10 



2,115 10 2 



829 18 3 



±-18;3,8fi0 2 :', 

 TRADING ACCOUNTS, for the year ending 30tl] June 

 1880. To Cost of Cultivation in Ccvlon 



Dr. 

 Airipittiakande 

 Aniliall 



Forilyce and Garbawn . . 

 Fruit Hill 



Gonagalla and Farauiatta 

 Ra])paliannock 

 llillaninlle 

 Thotulagalla 

 Ynttawatte 

 General Manager, Kuudry Expenses.. 



Lesn — Machinei'y . . 



To Insurance 

 I, Balance carried down 



Tj Loudon Expenses (less .f2 12s Gd 

 Transfer Fees) . • 

 Directors' Fees, Secretary, Law 

 Costs, Income Tax and General 

 Office Expenses. . 

 ,, Interest on Loans . . 

 „ Balance carried to Profit and Loss 

 Acconnt 



1,051 11 



(V27 17 



574 11 10 



i'2,2o3 19 10 



(Jr. 



By Net Proceeds of Coffee sold in London 7,702 i:> 



ft 



Bark 



Cocoa .( 



Ta ., 



Crdanioiiis ,- 



,, Net Proceeds of JBark sold iu Ceylon 



,( Estimated value of Bark not yet 

 1 ealised 



By Bilance brouijlit down 

 „ Amount carried to Suspense Account 

 b-iing part special expen iture o 1 

 ±'liinting Tea, Cocoa, Cardamoms, 

 !vnd on Buildnigs . . ,. 



2,838 8 



5-iS 15 i; 



1,770 5 G 



50 3 



12,950 5 7 



'2m i-i 10 



13,159 11 5 



],875 



] 5,034 11 5 



30 11 3 



2,223 8 7 



PLAiNTING IN NETHERLANDS INDIA AND 



JAA'A. 

 {Translated for lie Htraits Tivtf^.) 



Tlie JaraJlodc asserts that in consequence of the 

 Supreme Government refusing to do anything per- 

 inanent and thoroughgoing, to relieve the planting 

 interests in Java from the disproportionate burden of 

 taxation weighing it down, the eyes of many enter- 

 prisnig individuals there are directed towards British 

 North Borneo where sounder economic priciples are 

 put in practice. So far as fertility goes, British North 

 Borneo is not one whit superior to many of the 

 latter, such as Celebes and Sumatra, and is in nowise 

 better off as to population, so that only fiscal [con- 

 ditions count in its favour. These differ so widely 

 from those predominant in Netherlands India, as not 

 to admit of comparison. xVlready a Netherlander, 

 Mr. Geloes d'Elsloo has applied for 30,000 acres of 

 land within the territory of the British North 

 Borneo Company At Batavia a syndicate has been 

 started for the purpose of turning that acreage to 

 account on adequate capital, which was being raised 

 by last advices. No wonder that British North Borneo 

 is coming into favour among the planting community in 

 .Java, considering the drift and scope of the Govern- 

 ment relief measures for their behoof in these hard 

 times. After beating long about the bush, the Second 

 Chamber of the States General hns finally decided to 

 abolish provisionally only the tax on the free cul- 

 tiyation of sugar, and to grant a delay of five years for 

 half payments to the Government by sugar growers 

 working under contract with the latter, and to abolish 

 the export duty for five years. However welcome 

 this instalment of justice has proved to the planters, 

 they regret that the Supreme Government cannot 

 break away from half measures, and make up its mind 

 to do away altogether with a form of taxation quite 

 unsuitable to changed circumstances, and free, once 

 for all, European planting industry there from crip- 

 pling burdens. 



COFFEE ilEDIYIVUS IN CEYLON. 



It is very satisfactory to hear anyone with long 

 planting experience say a good word for the coffee 

 tree on Ceylon plantations nowadays. But wc 

 have had such a good word spoken by a gentle- 

 man with practical experience in several districts. 

 He instances Koslanda estate, Haputale, run down 

 some two years ago and now very nourishing with a 

 big crop. Although our informant's interest in coffee 

 is now limited, he does not believe that " green 

 bug" cannot be successfully dri\en away. It has 

 disappeared from several places where once it 

 was bad. Yosiord, Dimbula, is giving 5,000 bushel? 

 of crop, and it was thought to be far gone ; 

 another mid Dimbula property, is giving 3,000 

 bushels ; Rtiil another 4,000 bushels ; and 

 farther west, where a Superintendent was 

 ordered to take out the coffee, and refused " the 

 Colombo orders,' because he expected a thousand 

 bushels, he is gathering 1,200 ;— all found money ! 

 One of the best known planters in the country— - 

 xi'iih Uva, Deltotta and now Dimbula esperiencc— ■ 

 calling on us today, expressed confidence in being 

 able to do something with coffee yet in Ceylon. 

 We suspect all over the country now, that every 

 coffee bush with a green leaf will have the 

 utmost care taken of it, and all manner of help 

 given to the tree in lighting against bug or any 

 other enemy. We trust, therefore, that,* where 

 still to the fore, our old friend, coffee, — especially 

 in the Uva and Udapussella*-a divisions — may 

 have a long career yet of crop-bearing to the 

 btnetit of the planters, the labourers and th? 

 Colony at large, 



