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Tea plants are i well at Derema, but it is too early yet to give an 
opinion as to the result. If the cultivation of tea is to succeed on the’ 
East African littoral it will, says the Report, be necessary to bun the 
assistance of Chinese and Javanese coolies, and the hope is expressed 
that the Imperial Government will facilitate the importation of coolie 
labour from East Apia. 
Some former Wanyamwezi and Wasukuma porters have recently done 
well in the plantations, and an agent has been dispatched to the interior 
to enlist nae for the company and other agriculturists in the 
Usambara distri 
The cocoa cltvation = Derema has not been a success, the plans 
bea. too high up o ills. ‘The cocoa plantations at } ere 
me 3600 hectars une poi planted close to the sea, are e well. 
NE Kikogwe the outlook is less satisfactory; the market price o 
cotton, being now so low it has been found "Peces to supplement the 
cotton plantations with other crops, notably erian coffee roko 
s, maize, Mtama millet, and it is Ketisipated- n little by little the 
cotton should be replaced by coffee, cocoa, and Sisal hemp. Mr. Cowley, 
who started the Handei Hills plantations, has pum pinu manager 
at Muoa. 
I am, &c. 
The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.] M. Le M. Goss&ErIN. 
V.--KaisER WILHELMSLAND. 
This includes German New Gvinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, 
with an estimated area vem 250,000 square kilometres or about one half 
the size of the Cam 
“ The great eredt | in the history of T: colony this year is the Bill 
laid this session empowering the Imperial Government to take over the 
erre oi of Kaiser Wilhelmsland. 
ollowing notes are taken from the Memorandum submitted to 
tho Reichstag last month (May, 1896) in support of this measure. 
“In the three West African Colonies sovereign rights have been 
exercised ever since the annexation by the Emperor in the name 
* In Enst Africa, the German East Africa Company acquiri red 
abba, il rights by the Imperial Letter of MM of February E 
1885; but these were given up in 1890, the sovereignty of t 
Protons was vested directly in the Empire. 
and acquired juridical rights in ‘May, 18 86, and, except from November, 
1889, to September, 1892, has since carried on the government of the 
scattered colony. 
“During the 1889-92 interval a special arrangement was tried, 
under which the Government found the officials, whilst the company paid 
the salaries; but the plan did not work well, and, in September, 1892, 
the company again undertook the administration. 
“The company have found great difficulty in recruiting their staff, 
and finding people able to act as officials, and, at the same e time, possess» 
ing that practical knowledge required for nee or plantation purposes. 
This was specially the case when, Aii d death or illness, an appoint- 
ment had to be suddenly filled Vacancies were thus left 
unprovided for months, to the manifest disadvantage of all concerned. 
