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TEA IN AMERICA : THE FIRST ANGLO- 
INDIAN COMPANY. 
The prospectus is issued of the Associated Tea 
Planters, Limited, which has been registered by 
Sanderson, Holland, and Adkin, with a capital of 
£50,000 in shares of £1 each. 
The object is to establish markets in the United 
States of America and elsewhero for the sale of 
tea grown on plantations in tho East Indies or 
elsewhere, and to promote the demand for such tea 
in those places. The first subscribers are: — R. 
Lyell, 138; Leadenhall-street, E.G., 1 sharo ; J. B. 
Boyson, 4, East India-avenue, E.C., 1 ; J. 13. White, 
Waltham Abbey, I ; W. L. Watson, 34, Leadenhall- 
street, E.G., 1 ; W. ltoberts, 138, Leadenhall-street, 
E.C., 1 ; R. B. Magor, 138, Leadenhall-street, E.C., 
1 ; A. Thompson, 38, Mincing-lane. 1. The num- 
ber of directors shall not be less that three nor 
more than five, and the qualification shall be the 
holding of at least £100 in the capital of the 
company. The remuneration of the directors for their 
services shall be £300 per annum. — L. & C. Express. 
The Home and Colonial Mail says : — 
The prospectus of the Associated Tea Planters, 
Limited, an extract from which, together with tho 
names of the directors, we published six weeks since, 
in now formally issued, and tbe project for pushing 
Indian tea in America is fairly before the public. 
The prospectus Htttte.s that "The directors have entered 
into an agreement with Mr. W. Macgregor, a gentle- 
man extensively connected with tho tea trado in 
New York, who baa for some time beeu engaged in 
specially introducing Indian teas to the public 
there. He is, therefore, thoroughly qualified to 
become the agent and representative of this associa- 
tion, and he is HO satisfied that, with systematic sup- 
port from this side, the trade can be rapidly developed, 
that he is prepaied to accept a scale of remuneration 
based upon the results of the undertaking. Under 
such au arrangement as this, the Association will 
begin its operations on tbe foundation of a going 
busioeFs, with a connection already formed. Special 
tias, suitable for the trade which it is intended to 
IBM D out, will be (selected 011 the London market, 
accordion to advices received from tbe agent oi the 
A -nation: and it is believed that, with au 
ad. qnate amount ol working capital, and by eventually 
pi 010 ing a retail trade thiough shops or agents, 
or in any other way tb it may seem desirable, a large 
and remunerative business will result." As s'ime of 
tho most energetic among the Lmdon representatives 
tA the Indian CM industry are connocted with the pro- 
ject, it c mmends itself to all those who wish well to 
Uiglo-Indida enterprise. The prospectus of the com- 
pany npp urs on page vii. 
THE CEYLON TEA FUND. 
The following report of tho Standing Committee 
of The Ceylon Tea Fund was presented at the 
annual general meeting of the Planters' Association 
of Ceylon on Saturday last :— 
Members will remembi r that at the beginning 
of the year the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, 
who, jointly with the Assoc ation, had conferred 
mid arranged fur the organization aud development of 
the "T*» Fund" (launched in November inti- 
mated thi I the Oiamher desired to leave the matter 
entirely iu the hands of the Association, but would be 
■ltd 10 know from timoto time what vow being done. 
In terms 0! this dcci ion, at tin annual general meeting 
bl Id at Nuwara K.iyu on the 17th February ISSN vou ap- 
pointed a Standing Committee to manage tho " Fund" 
consisting of the Chairmen aud Secretaries of tbe 
iieveral district Associations, tho members of Committee 
for Sandy, and your Chairman aud Secretary, a few 
Othl 1 names being subsequently added during the year. 
Your Stindu.g Committee now beg j to submit a short 
n port of progress. Eight meetings have been hold. A 
good deal of the buaiiioia transacted bas bad rater* 
enoe to U10 arrangements for the representation 
aud advtrtineroont of Cevlou tea at Glasgow luU-r- 
uatiou»l Eibibitlou 1B8S, Molbourno Ccutouuiul 
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International Exhibition 1888, Brussels Internal ional 
Exhibition 1888, and Paris Universal Exhibition 1889. 
It. may be convenient to offer a few remarks regarding 
each. 
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1888. 
By resolution passed on the 15th November 
1887 the sum of rupees six thousand was voted 
towards the Exhibition. This grant of Rb',000 has 
been paid iu full to your Glasgow Exhibition Com- 
mittee, and your Standing Committee was gratified 
to find that, through tho exertions of Messrs. Reid 
Cargill, aud Sliaud, several of the leading London 
firms and companies, interested iu Ceylon, subscribed 
to form a Glasgow Exhibition Guarau'ee Fund, which 
by March had reached tho sum of £7 10 sterling. The 
result of the exertions made was the formation of a 
very creditable aud successful " Ceylon Court" as 
well as the erection aud equipment of a " Geylou Tea 
House," at which, front the month of May to Nov. 
1888, 134,512 cups of Ceylon tea were sold. A small 
handbook descriptive of Geylou and its industries 
with special reference to tea was also distributed 
gratuitously, aud undoubtedly a good opportunity was 
availed oi. as no fewer than 4,570,229 persons had 
been admitted to the Exhibition up to 10th October. 
Geylou, the Planters' Association of Ceylon, and the 
Glasgow Committee were honoured by the visit of 
Her Majesty the Queen, in the Jubilee year of ber 
reign, to your unofficial " Geylou Court," while it is 
worthy of special record that the Queen's interest in 
the Ceylon tea planting euterprise was personally 
shown by her gracious acceptance of a cup of Geylon 
tea courteously offered and by subsequent inquiries 
regarding it. It, will doubtless b« matter for your con- 
sideration in what way you may yet commemorate your 
appreciation of the circumstance in connection with 
your permanent memorial of the Jubilee of Her 
Majesty Queen Victoria still to be erected. Peuding 
receipt of a detailed report from Mr. J. L. Shand 
with connected statements of accounts, your Standing 
Committee feels it cannot usefully add anything to 
his own words respecting the success of your efforts 
at the Glasgow International Exhibition. He wrote : 
" I can only say that, if the Planters' Association and 
the Tea Fund, and the Ceylon public had spt-ut 
twenty times tbe money in Glasgow they might be 
congratulated on having made a splendid advertise- 
ment." 
Memo, showing payments made in Ceylon on 
account of tbe Glasgow International Exhibition 
1888, R6.000. 
MELBOURNE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION 1888. 
A sum of rupees six thousand was voted for the 
representation of Ceylon tea at the Melbourne Exhi- 
bition, as it was felt that it presented a great oppor- 
tunity of bringing Ceylou tea within the knowledge 
and appreciation of Australians and the vast numbers 
of visitors of all nationalities that would be drawn 
together at the time. Tho greatest difficulty un- 
fortunately was experienced in making preliminary 
arrangements, as with the exception of Mr. H. Mackenzie 
none of tho gentlemen asked to form themselves into 
a Melbourne Committee were able to act, aud it was 
not until the end of June that space was secured iu 
the minor Courts for the erection of a Ceylon tea- 
house. No time was, however, lost in the construction 
of a suitable kiosk, the building being completed and 
furnished shortly after the official opening of tho 
Exhibition. Tho decorations of the Geylon Court and 
tea-house consisted chiefly of a large, varied and 
very fine collection of Geylon photographs framed in 
sets of nine fitted into suitable positions in the 
building. Th> so alone have been a source of great 
attraction and have been much admired. Mr. Hugh 
Mackenzie deserves, as ho will doubtless reeeive, your 
very cordial thanks for his share in making your represen- 
tation of Ceylon tea at Melbourne Exhibition a suc- 
cess. You will, it is expected, ero long be in posses- 
sion of his report with statements of expenditure, 
Sec, Sic.: meantime it may be mentioned that tho 
disbursement mad.' on th's side at date aggregate 
KS.lilT'll. The notice in such leading Aimtralian 
newspapers as the -Irani and the Ag demonstrate 
that your efforts and those of your representatives have 
