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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [February r, 1889. 
tea for which I have asked, it will be unnecessary to do 
so, unless you are prepared to spend more than 116,000 
over the Exhibition, as tbe profit arising from sale will 
not meet expenses, and the undertaking must be closed 
at the end of November. Should the tea have already 
been shipped I will dispose of it to the utmost ad- 
vantage. There is no doubt that our teas are finding 
many friends through our efforts here, aud it would be 
a very shortsighted policy to withdraw so early. 
It is for your Committee to decide, and it will be 
neoessary that you acquaint me with your decision by 
wirt before the end of this month. I may add that the 
expenses here, for superintendence, wages, sugar, gas, 
milk, &c, amount to about £50 per month. — Yours 
faithfully, (Signed) H. McKenzie. 
Melbourne, November 13th. 
Tbe Secretary, Planters' Association, Kandy, Ceylon. 
Dear Sir, — I take advantage of the German mail 
closing today, to forward you a memo, of disburse- 
ments, made by me on account of your Committee, in 
the Ceylon Court, to the 10th instant, as desired by 
the resolution of the Tea Fund Committee, conveyed 
in your letter of October 15th. 
You will observe that the total expenditure amouuts 
to £316 5s 4d, and as stated in my letter of the 9th 
instant, I conclude that the balance in your hands for 
the Melbourne Exhibition, as shown in your memo, 
received, will be about sufficient to carry in through 
here to the end of the present month, at which time I 
shall be expectiug instructions from you by telegraph. 
With reference to tea sales, conducted as explained 
to you in my letter of 9th inst., I have to advise that 
I have sold tea to the value of £84 of which £62 10s has 
been received and the balance outstanding. 
The tea now in use in the tea-room is that bought 
from the Ceylon Tea Growers' Association through Mr. 
Foulker their agent, the remainder of that received 
from your Committee, being reserved for further use, 
when "tea of an equal quality is to hand from you, 
which I trust will be despatched as soon as possible, 
after you have received my letter of 9th inst., explain- 
ing the method adopted in selling, provided the Court 
is not to be closed at the end of the month. In any 
case I wish to be advised as to the disposal of exhibits, 
photos, &o., as to whether they are to be disposed of 
for the benefit of the fund, or iu what way disposed of, 
as, your having disapproved of my selling the tea. I 
prefer not taking upon myself the responsibility of 
winding up without definite instructions, informing you 
only that according to the regulations neither the kiosk 
■nor exhibits can be removed until the day of closing, 
at present fixed for January 31st. — Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) H. McKenzie. 
Meme. of disbursements in the Ceylon Court at 
the Centennial Exhibition, Melbourne, to the 10th of 
November 1888 on account of the Planters' Association. 
18S8. 
Aug. 
— T. Gibson, contractor, building 
Kiosk, office, Tea-room & fittings 128 
£ s. d. 
Mark Foy for furnishing 
Architect for plan of Kiosk ... 
Greenwade & Co. for sample 
glasses ... ... 
Sept. 20th. — Framing photographs 
27th.— Fenton & Sons, tea pots 9s j 
Do crockery 41s 6d J 
Dimond Brothers repairing 
Show cases ... 
Oct. — Mark Foy's furnishing 2nd account 9 
Native attendants mainten- 
ance account ... 
Do wages thuir private 
account 
Nov. — Superintendent's salary for 
October £15-0-0 
Do for previous 
assistance 5-0-0 
Ferguso i & Mitchell printing 
invitation cards & sample bags 5 
Tea sales expenditure ... !) 
De Einzy for mats ... 0 
15 6 
15 6 
2 0 0 
7 4 6 
9 14 6 
2 10 6 
0 
20 
4 0 
5 1 
11 6 
2 6 
20 0 0 
17 6 
1 7 
16 9 
Plumbers' account laying on 
gas and water ... 
* Paterson & Sons decorations 
estimated at 
Roeke & Co- Show stands ... 
Customs Agents' charges clear- 
ing and forwarding 
Duty on tea 
Charges on J.Thomas's exhibit 
(of Madulkele) sent direct 
to Commissioners 
Petties including milk, sugar, 
stationery, postage, 5 weeks' 
wages Tea-room assistant, 
gas, &c. 
* This aocount not yet received. 
E. & O. E. 
10 
16 
0 
12 
10 
0 
2 
5 
0 
11 
4 
2 
11 
5 
0 
0 
6 
6 
24 19 3 
£316 5 4 
13th November 1888. (Signed) H. McKenzie. 
Planters' Association of Ceylon, Kandy, 17th Nov. 1888. 
Hugh Mackenzie, Esq., Ceylon Court, Melbourne 
Centennial Exhibition, Melbourne. 
Dear Sir, — Since writing to you on the 15th ultimo, 
I have the pleasure to advise the shipment of further 
cases of tea, cardamons, and tea plants forwarded 
through the courteous good offices of Mr. Hugh Fraser. 
Messrs. W. L. H. Skeen & Co. have also been good 
enough to send as exhibits from the Planter's Asso- 
ciation two cases of photographs, 12 of which are 
views of Ceylon, Kandy, Breakwater, &c. &c; the 
other 12 are native character subjects. 
I have to advise a payment of R30 to the wife of 
J. Migal, native servant at tbe Exhibition, in terms of 
agreement on account of his pay to the debit of the 
Exhibition vote. 
There has not beeu a meeting of the Standing 
Committee of the "Tea Fund" after the receipt of 
your letter of the 5th October, telegram of the 13th 
and letter of the 19th October, but the Chairman 
having taken the responsibility, a further shipment 
of 500 lb of tea was arranged for as before through 
Messrs. J. M. Robertson & Co. to be supplemented by 
another 5001b of tea in view of your latest writings 
on the subject. For your information and guidance 
I beg to quote|as follows from a letter dated 16th Nov- 
ember received from Messrs. J. M. Robertson &Co: — 
■' In reply to your enquiry we have not yet shipped 
the 500 lb referred to in ours of the 1st instaut, though 
we have made arrangements for purchasing it packed 
in 20 lb boxes. We understand from your letter that 
your Committee wish us to purchase an additional 
5001b and making a total of "1,000 lb which will be 
paid for by the ' Tea Fund,' and we should be obliged 
if you would confirm this. 
"As regards the purchase of a still further lot 
of 1,000 lb, we have already advised Mr. Kelly that 
if we have to reimburse ourselves for this by 
drawing on Mr. Mackenzie for invoice cost, 
we much regret that it will not suit us 
to effect the purchase. Hitherto we have hardly 
regarded the purchases made at the request of the 
Planters' Association for Melbourne and elsewhere as 
business transactions, as we have only charged actual 
disbursement incurred on the understanding that the 
Association pays our invoices on presentation, and 
we have beeu glad to render what assistance we could 
towards furthering the object the Association has in 
view. But if Mr. Mackenzie wishes us to 6hip tea to 
him on his own account, we must look upon the matter 
from a purely business point of view, and we could only 
undertake the business, provided Mr. Mackenzie can 
furiiish us with a confirmed bank credit or make 
other satisfy cfcroy financial arrangements. As regards 
what Mr. Mackenzie says about the quality of the 
first two lots of tea sent to Melbourne, we can only 
say that they both came from the same estate, were 
valued here at the same price, aud were iu fact as 
nearly as possible a match. It is of course extremely 
difficult to buy small lots of tea at different times 
to match exactly." — I am, &c, (Signed) A. Philip, 
Secretary. 
