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September 
October 
November 
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1888 
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17,273 
19,104 
18,885 
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86,562 
27.478 
20,029 
22,530 
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9,37-2 
11,310 
11,283 
12,474 
10,275 
20,258 
25,359 
25,878 
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13,297 
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HI 
THE STOKAGE OV TEA IN BOND. 
In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of 
Justice on Monday, the case of Barlow, and Brother 
v. The Proprietors of the City Bonded Tea Warehouses 
was concluded, before Mr. Justice Field and a special 
jury. The plaintiffs, Messrs. Thomas Barlow and 
Brother, are merchants of Manchester and London, 
with houses in India and China, and the action was 
brought to recover £257 for deterioration and damage 
sustained by a parcel of 261 packages of first arrival 
1888 new season's tea, which was stored with the de- 
fendants on its arrival in London from Hankow on the 
25th of June last. A counterpart parcel of the tea which 
arrived by the same vessel was also warehoused by the 
defendants, but in a difforent room to tho tea in ques- 
tion, and sustained no damage. The plaintiffs' case 
was that the second parcel of tea was sold to a con- 
siderable extent on tho liral day at Is 6d a pound, and 
an offer of Is 5Jd per lb. for the first parcel was re- 
fused. The tea remained with the defendants until 
the 22nd of August, when the selling broker took 
further samples, and it was discovered the tea had a 
foreign smell, which was described as a " winey " smell, 
and said by the plaintiffs to be due to impreguatiou 
with the fumes of wines or spirits stored in a vault 
below, and admitted into tho tea warehouse through 
the ventilators. The tea was sold by auction on ae- 
couut of whom it might concern, and tho plaintiffs 
claimed for the difference between the amount realised 
and the amount they realised for the duplicate parcel 
of the same tea. The defence was a denial of negli- 
gence, and a contention that the altered condition of 
the tea on August 22ud was due to a process going on 
in the tea ever since its despatch from China, caused 
by bad curing, careless packing, or bad weather at tho 
time of packing. It was denied that the fumes of 
wines or spirits could have impregnated the tea, as none 
were about, and there was three feet of concrete 
between the tea warehouse and the basement. The 
ventilators, defendants said, were never opened while 
tho tea was there. A number of the most eminent 
tea brokers in London were called on both sides. In 
tho result the jury returned a verdict for the defend- 
ants, and his lordship gave judgment for the defendant 
with costs.— If. # C. Mail, Jan. 18th. 
THE HAKGALA BOTANICAL GAEDENS. 
(By a Visitor.) 
With the kindly assistance of Mr. Nock, the Super in- 
tendeut,and Mr. Alwis, his assistant, I was able to make 
a few notes, when on my visit to the Hakgala Gardens, 
and tbey are at your service. That " globs trottors" 
have b -en attracted to the place, is evident from tho 
long list of names in the visitors' book. Ou the sixth 
of this month the Earl of Antrim and the Hon. J. 
Scott Montayer, and on the 9th Messrs. Arthur 
Appleby and G. de Laurister, visited the gardens, and 
the two renowned botanists, Messrs. Potter of Cam- 
bridge aud Eugene Demarcay. The plants in tho 
gardens represent 130 orders, 800 general, and 2,000 
species and varieties. I was shown, in Mr. Nock's 
office room, the Ullucas tuberosa, which was brought 
from the Andes in South America. During the potato 
famine in Britain a largo quantity of this tuber was 
imported into lingland for the relief of the famine- 
stricken people- It is a small tuber, with a green 
leathery pericarp, in shape it tends to be more or 
less elliptical than rounded as a potato ; it is rather 
waxy when eaten, and so may not prove palatablo 
to Europeans. Mr. Nock is endeavouring to distri 
buto it among the natives, who, if they should take 
to it. will find it au excellent substituto for the potato. 
In the hothouses, ns one enters, aro seven Varieties 
of English grapo vino plants; thon the /•V/innrm 
UntmissimOt a native of tropical America, the fibre 
of which is the finest known. I am informed that u 
reward of 1:3,000 or £ 1,000 has boon offered to ninone 
who will invent a machine to inanufacturo this fib to. 
The muthtici from Tasmania attracted my curionity, 
its leaves when bruised yield tho odour of inu«k. 
Outside the Ei ln urm bas a curious history : one plant 
was brought many JBMI utfo by Mr. Tiily, of Dioibula, 
