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may be in consequence a good deal of disappoint- 
ment. But how are the Directors, who are not 
themselves to the manner born to mining, to know 
a first class miner, when they see him ; or to de- 
tect the mediocre ability of a second or third 
class man ? As time goes on, and their own false 
starts, and the blunders of the equally ignorant 
Directors of their Companies are brought home 
to fchem, they many learn a thing or two ; but mean- 
while the capital at their command will be dribbling 
away, and the public will become more clamorous 
for results. The shareholders will ask for dividends, 
and they will not be quieted by technical reports 
from the miners that are characterized by " much 
cry and little wool." There are, on the gold fields, 
some Mining Engineers, who may be safely trusted 
to go a-head economically, and conscientiously, with- 
out direction; but on the other hand, there are some en- 
gineers, so-called, who will need good deal of looking 
after, yet who may calculate with some safety upon 
the comparative freedom from direct control, which 
the fire thousand miles between themselves and their 
Boards will give them. It is not necessary to assume 
that the latter class of men will not do their best, 
or v, ill not act honestly by their employers ; but 
their best may be far from satisfactory to those whose 
interests they are engaged to promote. This brings 
us round, then, to our former argument, that tbe 
Gold Mining Companies of India should be managed 
in India. 
The Handbook contains the following list of Min- 
ing Engineers, and properties on which they reported 
favorably:— 
Grove, W. Central Wynaad. 
Harris, Edwin Grange. 
Harris, John Kingston Kaiser-i-Hind, Mysore 
Beefs, Nine Beefs, North Ooregum. 
Harvey, C. J. Cootacovil, Glenrock, Nilgiri, Tarn.. 
bracherry. 
Lain, Thomas Mammoth, Tambracberry. 
Lindon, E. V. Cherambadi, Madras. 
Massey, J. D. Parcherry. 
Pogler, Oliver Devalah Central, Devala-Moyar, 
Dingley Dell, Consolidated, Kingston, Needle- 
rock, Wentworth, Wynaad Perseverance. 
Sogers, John Nundydroog. 
Simons, W. Vazie Carta Para, Devala Provident, Ding- 
ley Dell, Simons Beef, South Wynaad Wynaad, 
Wynaad District, Wynaad Glen, Ooregum, North 
Ooregum. 
Smyth, B. Brough, Devalah Central, Devalah-Moyar, 
Trevelyan, Bbodes Beef, South-East Wynaad. 
Sowerby, W. Central Wynaad. 
Tapp, Henry Cherambadi. 
Of the above Companies one, the Indian Mammoth, 
is in liquidation. The Devalah Central, the Devala 
Moyar, the Devalah Provident, the Indian Glenrock, 
the Indian Phoenix, tbe Indian Trevelyan, the Bhodes 
Beef, South East Wynaad, the South Indian, the 
Tambracberry, the Wynaad Perseverance, the Colar, 
thf Mysore, the Mysore Beefs, and the Ooregum Com- 
panies have obtained a settlement on the London 
Stock Exchange. — Madras Mail. 
CALCUTTA TEA SYNDICATE. 
We have received a number of documents relating to 
the operations past and prospective of the Calcutta Tea 
Syndicate. First is a circular dated 12th August, re- 
ferring to a recent sales of tea in Melbourne, and 
giving an extract from a letter of Mr. Sibthorp's 
from Chicago on the prospects of Indian tea there. 
heu cornea an extract from a letter of Messrs, Jas. 
Heuty & Co.'s on the recent discussion on tea ad- 
ulteration and stating what steps were being taken to 
make Indian tea known throughout the Australian 
colonies. A memo is attached to this letter, on the 
irregularity of weight of the packages of tea from India, 
and consequent loss to importers. We then have the 
report of the Syndicate committee on the operations 
of the season 1880, and the revenue account and. balance 
sheet of the Australian venture. The report summarizes 
the results of that venture and states what was being 
done in America. We see that the Indian Govern- 
ment have given a grant of B6.000 towards he ex- 
penses of the American experiment, as they had given 
E10,000 toward the Australian one. Lastly we have 
a report of a general meeting of the members of the 
Syndicate and others interested in the Indian tea in- 
dustry, held on the 5th September in Calcutta. The 
chairman, Mr. J. J. J. Keswick, gave a short history 
of the movement which gave rise to the formation 
of the Syndicate, and the success which had attended 
its efforts in Australia. He also stated what was being 
done in America by Mr. Sibthorp. and urged on his 
hearers not to relax their hold on these new markets, 
He was followed by Mr. Inglis, who said : — 
The indirect gain to all concerned in introducing 
Indian Tea to new consumers would be enormous. It 
must be remembered that America (including in that 
term the United States and Canada) consumes over 80 
million pounds of tea, nearly the whole of which is at 
present supplied by China and Japau. If India could 
only get the supply of 10 per cent, of this quantity or 
say 8 millions, it would be an immense relief to this 
market, and would have the best effect on prices. Then 
again looking to Australian and New Zealand, we find 
they took over 22 million pounds last year from China, 
and I don't think we in India should rest content 
until we get the supply of at least one half of this quan- 
tity (Cheers). Of the two markets the American will, I 
think, be the most difficult to secure, and it will re- 
quire a very persistent and well sustained effort to obtain 
the same reception for our teas there which they have 
already met with in Australia. But the effort is well 
worth making and cannot fail to succeed. 
Mr. Lesslie Worke, who spoke next, said : — 
I observed in a recent circular issued by the Syndic- 
ate that only 400,000 lb. had been promised by the 
agency houses for shipment to Australia. I can quite 
understand tbe attractions which the London market 
has thus far offered— fortunately for the tea industry 
it has yielded up to date very handsome averages, but 
I think when we remember that we have not been able 
to get through half the season without something very 
closely approaching a panic being seen in that mar- 
ket, we must feel that in it we are leaning upon a 
broken reed. So long as we have solely London for 
our teas, we have only one string to our fiddle, and it 
requires a very clever man to do well when he ia 
reduced to so sore a strait- It is therefore clearly our duty 
and our interest to use all the influence we have as 
agency houses in supporting the Syndicate in its efforts 
to develop the Australian connexion, and we should 
certainly not rest satisfied with a smaller export this 
year than the 1| million paunds spoken of by Mr. 
Inglis (Cheers). 
The next speaker, Mr. Carritt, said : — 
The tea industry may with advantage take a lesson 
from the Calcutta jute industry. Not very long ago 
our jute mills were in a more deplorable condition 
than was our tea industry last year, and but for the 
successful efforts made by the mills to open out fresh 
markets in the Colonies and America, many of the 
mills now running would be closed. Their efforts were 
not without difficulty and some discouragement, as 
we shall no doubt have, but if our efforts are rewarded 
with like success the prize will be well worth the 
labour. Not only are the Indian jute manufactures 
carried to the Colonies and foreign countries, but 
they are frequently even sent to Great Britian to the 
very fountain head from which their opposition came. 
