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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [May i, ifcgo. 
Basel Mission Cannanore Cloth in Perak 
is thus noticed in the report on Kinta the 
Perak Government Gazette : — '' Some striped 
Cannanore cloth I ordered from the Basel 
Mission, for the convicts, has been made up. I 
consider it a great success ; the colours are yellow 
and dark grey — almost blaok. It is cheap, aud very 
strong, and will wear much longer than the drill 
hitherto used. It being so different to any material 
worn by natives will render the escape of convicts 
more difficult." 
Tea in the Unitetd States does not seem 
to be gaining in favour as coffee does. The figures 
for 11 months of 1889 show that the value of coffee 
imported had increased from $42,252,000 in 1884 
be 172,189,000 in 1889. The value of tea imported 
in the same period had gone down from $13,000,000 
in 1884 and $14,179,000 in 1886 to $10,658,000 last 
year. Let us hope that the operations of the Oeylon 
Company may lead to a better appreciation of tea 
in the States. 
Coffee at the Straits. — A correspondent seuds 
word that Mr. 0. H. de B. Hensler, a pioneer 
Liberian coffee planter in the Straits, is now on tour 
in the Malay Peninsula looking out for land likely 
to suit the cultivation of staple produce artioles. 
He finds it is said several parts of Perak to rank as 
high as the famous coffee districts in Ceylon, and is 
negooiating with the Government of that protected 
State for a concession of ten thousand acres to be 
worked by a oompany with a capital of one hundred 
thousand pounds sterling. — StraiUTimes March 11th. 
Mahousa Tea Co., Ld. — On the 26th February 
there was registered afurthei company connected with 
Ceylon, the Mahousa Tea Company Limited. It hard- 
ly seemed likely to me from the name, which sounded 
strange to my ears, that this undertaking had 
reference to your island, but Mr. A. Bryans, o£ 
Messrs. Buchanan & Co., of 9 Fenchurch Avenue, 
one of the diiectors, has told me that Mahousa 
is the native name for the Mousakelle estate situate 
in the Kelebokka Valley, which estate it is by the 
artioles of association proposed to work. Mr. Bryans, 
on my asking him to give me a prospectus 
of this new company, told me that he could not 
do so for the very good and sufficient reason that 
one had not been prepared or printed : — "Indeed," 
he said to me, " we do not care that the Company 
should have any more publicity than was given to 
it by the necessary act of registration. It is quite a 
private affair. The Company oonsisls exclusively 
of the present proprietors of the estate, whose sole 
object is to protect their interests by availing 
themselves of the law to limit their liability. I 
can therefore give you no particulars, nor, could I 
do ao, would they be possessed of the least public 
interest." The following are the names of the 
parties to the deed of registration &a. &o. as 
annexed in the financial papers : — 
Mahousa Tea Company, Limited. 
This Company was registered oil tlia 26th ulumo, with 
a capital of £18,000, in £5 shares, to purchase the Mousa- 
kelle estate, situate in Kellebokka Valley, Dumbara Dis- 
trict, Ceyluu, and to cultivate tea, coffee, cinchona, and 
other produce. The subscribers are : — 
Shares. 
J. H. Wilson, 14, Lexham-gardens, merchant 1 
*A. Br>aus, 9, Fenchurch-avenue, merchant 1 
P. Robertson Ross 11, Sloane-gardeDs,S. W. ... 1 
*W. L. Watson, 7, Wetherley-gardens, S.W. I 
W. I. D. Blackhall, 35, Nicholas-lane, bank 
manager ... ... ... ,., 1 
*S. Roulnois, Army and Navy Club ... 1 
A.Y. Ruehanan, 4, Tauuton-place, Regent's- 
park, wharfinger ... ... ... 1 
The number of directors is not to be less than 3, nor 
more than 6; qualification, IUU shares ; the first are the 
subscribers denoted by an asterisk; remuneration, £2 2s each 
per meeting. Solicitors, Messrs, Oehme, Suuiniersays and 
Co., (ireshaifl-house. 
—London Cor. 
A Duty on Exports of Coffee. — The Congress 
assembled at San Salvador has issued a decree that 
from the 26th ultimo a duty of $1 per quintal be 
impose '« on all coffee exported during one year, the 
proceeds to be used in the reconstruction of the 
antional palaoe. — American Grocer. 
Senegal Caoutchouc- Iq a French report on the 
products of Senegal it is stated that the average 
annual production of caou chouo in Cazamance is 
50,000 kilogs, but in 1889 its collection waB neglected. 
The southern rivers produce annually (including the 
Bissagos) about 400,000 kilogs. to 5U0.000 kilogs., 
according to the years. The price of ordinary 
caoutchouc is in Cazamane 3 francs for best quality, 
and in France 3 francs 75. Superior caoutchouc, 
best quality, fetohes 4 francs 25 in Cazamance, and 5 
francs in France. Inferior caoutchouc is sold accord- 
ing to its purity. Business is done in the presence 
of the article, because it is of an irregular quality 
mixed with sand and foreign substances. Liverpool, 
Bordeaux, and Marseilles are the principal markets. 
Toe export duty levied in Senegal on this article is 
about 18 centimes per kilog,, whilat the rate of .freight 
t,o France is given at 60 francs per 1000 kilogs,— 
electrical Trades Journal. 
The Indian Cinchona Companies.— When gold 
mining was abandoned by some of the Wynaad Com- 
panies, they directed their attention to agricultural 
pursuits, and the cultivation of the cinchona bark 
was largely pursued. Devala Moyar (which is still 
continuing to mine with fair prospects of success) 
has about 130,000 trees, and should be able to deliver 
some 40,000 lb. per annum, but the quantity is too 
small to greatly affect the reoeipts. The Tarn brachery 
and Wentworth Compauies are both large producers, 
and the rise present and anticipated is of great im- 
portance to them. The cultivation of bark has not 
always been attended with success. Glenrock has 
done something in this way, and Indian Consolidated 
has cinchona as one of the strings to its bow, which 
must not bs omitted in any fair estimate of its 
assets. It has about 120,000 trees on its Wynaad 
estate, averaging from 5 to 14 feet in height, some 
of which are eight or nine years old. We do not 
wish to lay too much stress on the improvement 
that has taken place in the price of cinchena, bark 
but we think it right to keep our readers nformed 
of the fact, and also that it constitutes one of the 
assets of the various Companies we have named. — 
Madras Mail. 
Sale of Wedmore Quinine Works. — On Monday, 
at the Bromley County Court, an action was brought 
against Mr. Martin . J. Dickens by Mr. William Tar for 
the recovery of £21 5s., being half the commission on 
the sale of the Wedmore Quinine Works. The plain- 
tiff stated that the vendors of the quinine works, Wed- 
more, instructed him in July last to endeavour to find 
a purchaser for the works, and a commission note was 
given to him by Mr. Oooke, one of the vendors. When 
he was away one day Mr. Henry Podger came to see 
him, and he was informed of the visit. Mr. Dickens 
came to see witnesses last September, and asked the 
name of the vendor. Witness informed Mr. Diobens 
that if he gave him any assistance in the matter he 
should expect to share the commission, and this the 
defendant promised. Witness then gave Mr. Dickens 
a note of introduction to the vendors, and under a 
commission note received Mr. Dickens sold the works 
to Mr. Henry Podger on October 16th, the price rea- 
lised being £1,650. The commission on this arxount 
was £42 10s., aud on plaintiff applying to defendant 
for his half he denied having promised him anything. 
Cross-examined : Witness had received £25 from each 
of the vendors, Blr. Robertson and Mr. Oooke. Mr. 
Cooke said Mr. Dickens was introduced to him by 
plaintiff. For the defence it was contended there was 
no promise, the defendant's sole object in seeing the 
plaintiff being in respect to the mortgage. Judgment 
was given for the defendant with costs,— Chemist and 
ruggi&t, March 8th. 
