STATISTICS REGARDING INDIAN TEA. 



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In staling the deliveries at an average of 4,500,000 Ibs. for 

 the next five months, we have taken this amount merely for the 

 purpose of arriving at a conclusion. In case the deliveries of 

 the months of February to June inclusive average, as is gene- 

 rally expected, 5,000,000 Ibs. a month, the stocks at ist July 

 next will be under 12,200,000 Ibs., or 3f million Ibs. less than at 

 the corresponding date. 



We can but consider this a very healthy outlook, especially 

 as it is simultaneous with the estimated decrease in the supply 

 of China Tea, and the possibility that the shipments to the 

 United Kingdom may not reach the estimate. With respect to 

 the latter contingency, we must recollect that new markets 

 are being rapidly developed for Indian Tea. Australia, America, 

 and other parts than the United Kingdom took over three 

 million pounds from ist May to 3ist December last year, com- 

 pared with less than a third of that quantity shipped thence 

 from India in the corresponding period of 1881. A continuance 

 of this rapid rate of outside demand would considerably curtail 

 our supply, and develope the growing Indian industry. 



Gow AND WILSON, 

 19, Little Tower Street, London, E.G. 



The diagram omitted shows as follows : it gives the 

 results quarterly, I only give them yearly in millions of 

 pounds. 



CONSUMPTION OF CHINA AND INDIAN TEAS IN THE UNITED 

 KINGDOM FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. 



Thus, while China Tea consumption has decreased in 



