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following, also from the Tea Gazette. Matters there certainly 

 look promising for the Indian planter : 



THE NEW AUSTRALIAN TEA ASSOCIATION. 



Our friends in Australia, now that they are convinced of the purity 

 and good quality of our Indian Teas, have determined, we are glad 

 to see, to follow in the wake of the Calcutta Tea Syndicate, and push 

 by united effort Indian Teas throughout the Australian Colonies. Know- 

 ing full well that no half-hearted measures would be likely to succeed, 

 and that the efforts of a few individuals would not meet the require- 

 ments of the market, our friends in Victoria and New South Wales 

 have combined, and formed an association under the title of the 

 " Calcutta Tea Association," for the sale of pure and unadulterated 

 Indian Teas to wholesale merchants, storekeepers, and customers in 

 general. Large and handsome premises have been taken in King 

 Street, Melbourne, and Charlotte Place, Sydney, in which the opera- 

 tions of the Association are to be carried on on a large scale. 



AMERICA. 



The following is from the Daily News a Calcutta 

 paper : 



We were glad to note that our American cousins were being 

 induced to give some orders. If only Indian Tea was once taken up, 

 and became popular, its future would be secured. The teeming 

 masses of people in the States would consume more Tea we should 

 imagine than all the English public, provided Indian Tea took the 

 place of China. Australia so far has done well, but the market there 

 would be easily glutted, whereas, if its use became general, it would 

 be almost impossible to glut the American market. The millions of 

 settlers in America and in Canada all use Tea at their meals very 

 much as an Englishman takes his beer, so that the inland consumption 

 must be very large. In Australia, every shepherd carries his pannikin 

 of Tea, and the amount he swallows in twelve months must be pretty 

 considerable. In the backwoods of America and Canada, each wood- 

 cutter consumes nearly half a pound of Tea weekly, so that, with its 

 millions of people, America could easily dispose of millions of pounds 

 of Tea, which would not only clear off all the surplus Tea in the 



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