December i, 1888.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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LATEST NORTH BORNEO NEWS. 
(From the British North Borneo Herald, Nov. 1st.) 
A rara avis in the shape of a white swallow has for 
the last fow weeks been soaring in graceful gyrations 
round Government House which is regarded by the 
natives as an infallible omen of approaching pros- 
perity. 
Mr. von Donop has procured some carefully selected 
Tea Seed from Ceylon and any one who may wish to 
have a few plants can obtain the same by applying to 
Mr. Jl. Walker to whose care they have been entrusted. 
The Lincarbo Pearl Fisheries have commenced and 
the consequence is an exodus of natives from Saudakui 
and from the Bay. The fishery shews every sign of 
being a most profitable one to both Government and 
the collectors. 
A Company is forming in Loudon to buy up an ex- 
tensive tobacco estate in British Borneo for ,5000,000 
with the object of exporting the product to the United 
.States.— The Kansas City Star, August 20th, 1838. 
[Kansas Mo. U.S.A.) 
Wo regret very much to have to report tho death of 
Mr. Meyners from malarial fever contracted whilst 
cutting out land for Baron Von Stein'B Tobacco Com- 
pany. Dr. Lamb on a recent visit to Lahad Datu 
found him in a very precarious condition and brought 
him back to Sandakan but notwithstanding all that 
medical skill could do, he passed away on the 14th 
ultimo. Ho was buried in th 9 Christian Oemetory, 
the Hev. Mr. Elton officiating; his funeral being at- 
tended by H. E. the Governor and all the European 
residents. Mr. Moyners was the son of Col. Meyners 
of Delft, Holland, and a widower at the time of his 
death and leaves bohind him also a son and a brother 
to mourn his loss. 
Wo have it on good authority that on some of the 
rivers here stools have been found consisting of over 
thirty canes and that Mr. Pryer saw one of thirty 
five canes on tho Kinnbatiuigan. — "That is so" said 
a Dutch gentleman who overheard our informant 
" but if you tell it to any one in Java lie will say you 
are a liar." 
W'r are glad to learn that Count Goloes has formed 
a Company in Loudon to take over 2d,00U acres in 
Marudu Bay under the style of the Loudon Borneo 
Tobacco Company, Limited, which will start with a 
working Capital of £80,000 sterling. The 4,000 shares 
that were olfercd to the public! were more than covered 
by tho applications. The vendor receives no cash and 
will receive no dividends on the 4,000 shares allotted 
to him until 20 per ceut has been paid on the 8,000 
shares allotted to tho public; and when 1(10 per cent 
has been paid on tho 8,000 shares the vendor nill be 
entitled to one fourth of any further profits. Count 
Geloos' land adjoins Kanow and the terms of sale shew 
bis confidence in the future of tho London Borneo 
Tobacco Company's new Estate. 
NETHERLANDS INDIA NEWS. 
Cooi.ikb 1-oe Deli. 
Papers laid before the Netherlands States General 
throw light ou tho nognciations which have been car- 
ried on to turn part of the stream of emigration from 
India In the direction ol Doli. The Netherlands Cou- 
snl General at Singapore and another official went 
rai ly this year on a mission to Calcutta for that pur- 
pose. They mot there, from tho authorities concerned 
every assistance and co operation in gaining tho object 
in view. The Governor General of Netherlands India 
has thanked the Viceroy of India in consequence. Tho 
Consul General reported that tho nogociatious had 
been brought to u satisfactory conclusion. 
CoOLIKB KHOM BlNOASOIIBi 
At Itatnvia, coolies have he.oino soiree. They 
generally come from Bantam, but this )car, owing 
10 the disturbed state of tin- province, their numbers 
tuvo been fewer. At lust, the supply fell so short 
that a British linn at that port duioriniued upon 
importing smne three hundred Chin. -e e i dies fp>n 
Bil ipom. They arrived and set to work on tho 2'Jth 
October. The Bantam coolies around came to the 
■pot, and llood storing with great astonishment u' 
the work of these new competitors At lir>H there 
were fears of disturbances, but the brown labourers 
took it all very quietly, and did not molest tho 
new-comers at all. — Strait* Time*, Nov. 12th. 
[In 1881 estates in the Straits were worked largely by 
Javanese. — Ed.] 
SOUTH WYNAAD. 
Crop is extraordinarily lato this year ; picking 
can hardly even yet We considered really on, and 
the coffee is ripening patchily, but I am glad 
to hear that, so far as can he judged at this 
oarly stage, the sample promises to be better than 
that of last year. The Chormas are in full force and any 
amount of labor obtainable for weeding purposes. I 
hear also of sundry fresh blocks of land which have 
lately found purchasers in this district, which looks 
as if the belief in the future prosperity of coffee still 
exists amongst us. There is a great deal of anxiety felt 
on the subject of crop robberies ; and I was delighted 
to learn that one gang of Punniahs had been already 
captured, red-handed. Though so early in the season 
more than one estate has been robbed, and it is a 
known fact that very considerable preparations are 
being made by the regular " receivers," who are deter- 
mined that they, at any rate, shall not suffer like most 
of us from "short crops." It seems extraordinary 
that such a state of things should exist, and it would 
be an infinite boon to the hardly tried planters if a 
more strongly organised system of police could be 
introduced during the crop season at least. It is tho 
receivers who require severe dealing, for the actual 
thieves are mere semi-savage slaves, bound to do as 
they are bid by their far more culpable masters, and 
yet, so far nothing is done for us, and, as often as 
not, culprits caught in tho act escape through means 
which, in our injured eyes, appear simply inexplicable. 
Our latest cinchona worry in the appearance of hordes 
of gigantic grasshoppers, which devour everything, 
after the -.aimer of locusts. At first they are small, 
brown, insignificant creatures, which collect by thou- 
sands on every tree, and play sad havoc amongst 
them ; after some time these develope into really 
magnificent insects, beautifully colored, and very large. 
Tho next stage is tho depositing of countless eggs in 
the soil around the trees, and what the result of theso 
will bo next year, we tremble to anticipate!* The 
weather has, of late, been very extraordinary, quite 
unlike what we usually expect in October and Novem- 
ber, very close and sultry, with constant storms, all 
of which have been exceedingly trying, and colds, 
fever and other ailments are the consequent results 
amongst the coolies. It is " fine growing weather," 
doubtless, bit not suited to drying colfee and bark. 
Very great quantities of this last product are going 
down dai.y to the coast, and it is to be hoped, in 
our planting interests, that the price will improve. — 
Madras Times, Nov. 12th. 
INDIAN TEA BAZAARS Co., Ltd. 
It is proposed to start a company under the above 
name, with a capital of £25,000 in 25,000 shares of 
£1 each, the lirst directors being Messrs. Robert 
Foote, Tea Merchant, '.) Virginia Street, Glasgow ; 
Andrew Poison, Tea Planter and Importer, 21 How- 
ard Streot, Glasgow; and Alexander Wright, Baltic 
Dyeworks, Glasgow. From the prospectus we quote 
as follows : — 
This Company has been formed for the purpose of 
acquiring and extending the business at present car- 
ried on in Glasgow. Dundee, Greenock, Leith, Hull, 
aud other places, under tho name of "The Indian 
Tea Bazaars." The business consists of the sale, 
wholosal" and re. til of Indian and Ooylon Teas, Coffee, 
Cocoa, <Vc , for hmieh Id ooiisiunptio > an 1 otherwise, 
and the sale of these articles as refreshments itiTea 
and Lunelle in RoOUll I pec ally title I np for tho par- 
poso. This boaineet the Company propoaeeto doveiop 
nud cxlond over lliu whole of Great Britain as op- 
i portnuily offers. With tho growth of the Tempe- 
l "Yduuo movement an almost unlimited maud lor IV.i 
• Have grasshoppers ever attacked cinchona! in Ceylon t 
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