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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [January i, 1889 
Act the tea in question should have been divided 
into three equal parta ? No; I am not a barrister. 
So much the better for you. 
Witness : — That is as it may be. 
Mr. Poland : — You received the tea from Mr. Wain- 
wright ? I did. And you personally gave a portion 
to Mr. Stehn? I did What is he? A tea taster, 
associated with Messrs. Wilson, Smithett & Co. And 
what is Mr. Stanton ? A broker. He is a principal. 
And what aboub the remainder of the tea ? It has 
been in my possession all the time. 
Mr. Stehn was then called, when 
Mr. Poland argued that no evidence had been given 
to prove that the packet produced whs the packet 
purchased at Loe's. There was proof wanted as to 
who carried the tea to Mr. J. G. Wainwright, and 
also as to whether that the tea was the same as 
had beeD left by Mr. W. L. Wainwright in the hall 
at his grandmother's. 
After some conversation it was agreed to adjourn 
the further hearing of the case until Thursday, the 
29th November 1888. at 2 o'clock. 
Mr. Poland said, that he would produce proof as 
to what ships had brought the tea to this country, and 
would also show by evidence that with the exception 
of one-fifth or one-sixth the packet of tea sold to Mr. 
Wainwright was pure Ceylon tea. 
Au application by Mr. Poland for costs against the 
plaintiff on the first hearing was refused, the Alder- 
man acceding to Mr. Gray's suggestion that the 
question of costs might be left over till the conclusion 
of the case. 
GLASGOW EXHIBITION. 
Ceylon Court, Iuternation Exhibition, Glasgow, 15th 
Nov. 1888. 
The Ceylon Planters' Association. 
Gentlemen, — The Glasgow Exhibition is over, and I 
think Ceylon men have every reason to congratulate 
themselves on the success of the Ceylon Court and 
Tea-house here. The former was the most popular 
Court of its class in the Exhibition, and the success of 
the tea-honse is best explained by the following 
statistics of cups of toa sold :— 
cups. 
May ... 19,058 
June ... 18,822 
July ... 24,137 
August ... 23,946 
September ... 22,834 
October ... 17,850 
November ... 7,865 
Total ... 134,512 
The tea-house kept up its reputation to the very 
end, as we sold during the last week 5,881 cups. 
People are all praising the tea, and there is no doubt 
that the Exhibition has proved a very good advertise- 
ment for the Colony. 1 am now sitting in the wreck 
of the Court seeing the familiar old exhibits being- 
packed up and returned, and after eight months of 
hand work feel thankful not only that the Show is 
now over, but on account of the success which has 
marked the Glasgow Exhibition of 1888.— I am, gentle- 
men, yours faithfully, (Signed) R. 0. Haldane. 
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Products of the Pineapple. — A valuable medi- 
cinal oil, a sort of wool said to be obnoxious 
to moths, and a strong, cheap matting, are 
among the products now made from pineapples. — 
Indian Tea Gazette, 
Tun work of pushing Indian and Ceylon tea in 
Scotland and the North of England is assisted by 
the formation of a company entitled the Indian Tea 
Bazaar Company, Limited. TV's Company, the 
capital of which is £25,000 in £1 shares, has been 
formed for the purpose of acquiring and extending 
the business at present carried on in Glasgow, 
Dundee, Greenock, Leith, Hull, and other places, 
under the name of " The Indian Tea Bazaars." The 
hu0iD6PS consists of the sale, wholesale and retail, of 
Indian and Ceylon teas, coffeo, cocoa, &c, for house- 
hold consumption|and otherwise, and the sale of these 
articles as refreshments in tea and luncheon rooms 
especially fitted up for the purpose. — II. & O. Mail. 
Rice in Ceylon. — The Rein and Ruyyet has the 
following note:— "After a good deal of effort to 
make rice a paying crop in Ceylon, the cultivation 
is to be abandoned. The Government have accepted 
the view that the experiment has failed. Paddy 
cannot be grown at a profit." We wonder where our 
Calcutta contemporary got this information. It was 
only the other day that a leading Ceylon paper 
complined of tank restoration, irrigation, and the 
over-much prominence given to the encouragement 
of paddy-growing, albeit it declared its opinion that 
the Island* is by no means suited to be a great rice- 
grower. We do not think, nor is it a fact that Paddy 
cannot be grown in Ceylon at a profit. We may 
however concede this much, that paddy growing in 
the north of Ceylon, iu the peninsula of Jaffna where 
running water is unknown, is not appreciably profit- 
able.— " Ceylon Patriot," Nov. 30th. 
Deli and Borneo Tobacco. — In Holland the price 
of tobacco shows a falling off. Overproduction is 
not the exciting cause. There is always a steady 
demand for any superior ripe tobacco which yields 
white ashes. These good qualities begin now to be 
wanting in Deli tobacco. Dealers ascribe this short- 
coming to inferiority in soil, owing to the exhaust- 
ing nature of the cultivation. Hence Deli tobacco 
has reached its highest point, and, before long, 
it will be distanced. The demand calls for good 
colour, uniform on the whole leaf, which must 
be moreover sound all through, and without spot 
or blemish. The recent consignments which reached 
the markst in Holland show spots and burn badly. 
Their inferior quality has told heavily in depressing 
prices. Under these circumstances Borneo tobacco 
has a bright future befure it. — Straits 27jb<?s,Nov. 5th. 
Coir for Soldiers' Bedding. — We regret to find 
that some serious printers' errors were overlooked in 
the opening sentences of our short artiole on the 
above subject in last week's Overland Mail. The 
passage should have read as follows : — It seems 
strange that a device for increasing the comfort and 
healthfulness of soldiers' beds, which has been 
proved in India to be not only efficient but econo- 
mical, should still remain unadopted for the Home 
forces, although the matter has been repeatedly 
pressed upon the consideration of the authorities at 
the War Office. Straw for palliasses has been found 
to be so unsatisfactory for soldiers' bedding that the 
authorities have long been looking for a substitute - 
They endeavoured to find it in some form of canvey 
or netting bottomed cots with extra blankets, but 
these have been found objectionable from their cost 
and the want of warmth, etc. — O. Mail. 
Quinine and its Future. — A good deal of 
information of interest to cinchona owners will 
be found on page 450- A planter sends us 
a cutting from the Financial News in which " Verb. 
Sap." gives his opinion as follows: — 
There are various reasons for supposing that these 
large shipments of bark (from Ceylon) will fall off in 
the coming year. The very low price of bai k will pre- 
vent much inferior produce being sent, the absence of 
disease in trees which have survived, and the impecu- 
nious owners of estates being now able to make both 
ends meet with their tea cultivation — all are causes 
which may result in manufacturers finding themselves 
sliort of the raw material they have in previous years 
been overstocked with. Itis very easy and inexpen- 
sive to hoid stocks of bark or quiliiae, and it would not 
require verj much capital to hold all that was neces- 
sary, not to drive np t he price of sulphate of quinine to 
15s per ounce, a= ^as done Porr>p 10 years ago, tut, say 
to treble its present value. 
* We have alwajs guarded ourselves by limiting our 
objection to certain district!", r t favourable to rice 
cultivation. — Ed, 
