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five years by fourteen and a-half millions of pounds, Indian 

 has increased by fifteen and a-half millions ! 



It must be remembered that the former table given at 

 page 194 deals with imports, this with consumption, and 

 thus the difference in the figures. 



The following extract from the Tea Gazette (January, 

 1883) is interesting in a statistical point of view: 



The exports to Australia (which, as it is well known, have increased 

 more than twenty-fold in six years) now occupy a position only second 

 to that of the United Kingdom ; and if the P. and O. Company would 

 see its own interest, it would facilitate by every means in its power so 

 important a development of a great industry. 



The Straits Settlements, in spite of their proximity to China, took 

 last year ten times the quantity they took six years ago ; and Persia. 

 strange to say, has taken 54,712105. against 334lbs. in 1876-77 Turkey 

 in Asia and Egypt, together, having taken also 2i,4881bs. against 

 886lbs. in the same period. 



Mr. Liotard is of opinion that these are not a tithe of the openings 

 that might be found; and it is^to be hoped that at the Amsterdam 

 Exhibition and elsewhere the Tea Syndicate will in no way relax it> 

 efforts. 



The imports of China Tea to India have, in the six years also above 

 referred to, increased about 60 per cent. Speaking on this point, we 

 are of opinion that the Syndicate might well make efforts to increase 

 the local consumption of Indian Tea to the replacement of Chinas, and 

 we feel sure that such organised exertion would be followed by very 

 satisfactory results. 



The re-export of China Tea from India shows four times the quan- 

 tity of six years ago by far the greater quantity going to Persia and 

 Turkey in Asia. Mr. Liotard thinks that the N.-W. P. and the Punjab 

 might appropriate a good deal of this trade ; and from the character 

 of the Teas of these districts we are disposed to agree with him. The 

 great increase of export from Karachi shows that this, to some extent, 

 is being done. 



The abolition of the duty on China Tea imported to India, under 

 the recent free trade policy, appears to have had a prejudicial effect 

 on the planters in Northern India who can ill afford it. The figures 

 given at the commencement of the pamphlet show that the number of 



