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cular estate. Although it was practically admitted 
that the ordinary British public attached no meaning to 
the word, it was said that a special class did attach a 
meaning to it. The only possible class would be the 
wholesale dealers in Mincing-lane, but the evidence 
did not bear out the suggestion made as to them. The 
tea sold under the trade-mark did not go to them, 
Lut to the general public who used blended teas. 
His Lordship was not bound to consider the case of 
a few isolated individuals who, having been told that 
" wattee " meant an estate, jumped to the conclusion, 
without inquiry, that " Mazawattee '" meant a par- 
ticular estate. Reviewing the authorities, his Lord- 
ship , distinguished "/«. re. Jackson's Trade-mark" 
(6 Rep. Pat. Oas., 81), ". Davis v. Stribolt " (ib., 207), 
" In re Salt's Application (Law Reports, 1894, 3 eh., 
1G(>), " Tn re 1< arbenfabriken's Application" (Law 
Reports, 1894, 1 Ch., 645), and " In re Vignier's 
Trade-mu-k " ((i Rep. Pat. Cas., 490), and said that 
with all respect to Lord Justice Kay, he doubted 
whether he himself should have decided •' In re Jack- 
son's Trade-mark " as the Lord Justice had done. This 
was the "Kokoko" case, and his Lordship would 
probably, under the peculiar circumstances, have left 
the Chippeway Indians to take care of themselves. 
The application was dismissed with costs. 
MARKET FOR TEA SHARES. 
Thursday Evening, Jan. 24. — In a valuable and 
instructive paper on " Tea " read before the Society 
of Arts on Wednesday evening by Mr. A. G. Stanton, 
that gentleman made special allusion to tea shares 
as an investment for British capital. Certain of his 
remarks may, with advantage, be quoted in this co- 
lumn. He said : '■ There are strong reasons for be- 
lieving that . . . tea securities will become as 
readily marketable as many other shares." And 
again: "At a time when the difficulty of ob- 
taining more than an extremely small rate of in- 
terest on capital is felt by the public as keenly as it 
is at the present moment, there certainly appear 
to be many inducements for more general invest- 
ment in tea-prcducing concerns." While further on 
he says : " The greater the pecuniary interest the 
public hold in so i'ar-reaehing an industry the more 
benefit is the empire likely to derive from it, for 
. . . there is nothing like pecuniary interest 
to induce a desire for the well-being of an indus- 
try," &c. 
We are glad to notice that the Sunday Observer, 
a paper which is to be found in most clubs and 
libraries, has recently included some representative 
"quoted" tea companies in its weekly list of Stock 
Exchange securities with variations of prices for 
the week. 
Business in Tea Shares still continues on a pretty 
full scale, and more than one advance in quotations 
is notified in the official list. 
The Mincing Lane market again shows renewed 
strength, with the lower and medium grades ad- 
vancing. 
Ceyjlon Shakes. — Ceylon Plantation Prefs. have 
been done at i'l."), but with shares still available at 
the price. Nothing in the Ordinary, which, however, 
ask £'20. Eastern Produce and Estates £5 ordinary 
ih in 16 were taken at 2J. New Dimbula B's have- 
again been done at £15, and the A's are asked for. 
Ouvahs were taken at 8J, and more are wanted 
with n£ up bid for them. A small line of Scottish 
Ceylon Prefs. were taken at lljj, and now offer at 
l'ii. Tho Ordinary are now called £20! — II. and C. 
Mail, Jan. 25. 
In the Tea Market the buoyant tone continues, 
and the advance is extending to tho better grades 
of Tea. Finest during the season has ruled at a full 
range, and so far shows no advance. Ceylon tea, of 
which supplies to arrive the next few months will form 
the chief imports, is in an exceptionally favourable 
position, afna if an improvement in quality can be 
effected over the poor stuff of crop 189 1, planters 
will have a command of the market. Deliveries are 
proceeding satisfactorily and are in exeoss of last 
year.— L. <t C Express. 
CEYLON PLANTING DISTRICTS : A LOOK- 
IN AT DOLOSBAGE : 
- 
A FINE OLD COFFEE DISTRICT TRANS- 
FORMED INTO A GOOD ALL-ROUND 
TEA DISTRICT. 
It is not our fault, but our misfortune, that 
after 33 years in Ceylon, our first visit to 
Dolosbage-proper should have been delayed till 
February 1895. Not that we have not been 
within its boundaries on more than one side 
often before ; for, indeed, on the east no travel- 
ler upeountry can avoid trenching on Dolos- 
bage, seeing that as defined by the Commit- 
tee of the Planters' Association in 1S5G, the 
district was bounded north by the Mahaoya, 
east by the Mahaweliganga, south by the Wai- 
oya and Raxawa ridge, and west by the open 
country, which forty years ago was never deemed 
to have, in the womb of the future, so im- 
portant a planting division as the Kelani Valley 
Tea District. Dolosbage, however, has always 
been independent and successful enough to stand 
on its own merits. In the best coffee days it 
used to be regarded as having more individual 
properties free of mortgages and agents than 
any other districts of its size in Ceylon — no 
mean compliment ! Our invitations and promises 
to visit Dolosbage go back a long way — to the 
days when Mr. Henry Saunders ruled over 
Narangalla and dispensed hospitality with no 
niggard hand to Railway Engineers busy along 
the opposite Alagalla range and to other visitors 
who found their way via Utuwankanda and 
Aranayaka. How often have we hoped to see 
his successor, Mr. Whithani on his own diggings ; 
or the Patriarch of Cooroondawatta at another 
end of the district ; or yet again poor Blackett 
and Drummond at the Doteloya-Bulat kohopitiya 
boundary ; and after all our entry has been 
through none of these divisions, but from' 
Nawalapitiya under the classic shadow of 
Raxawa and the "Sentry-box" and the hospit- 
able guidance of the manager of Rarnagalla. 
The want of roads used to be the great excuse 
for not attempting Dolosbage : " Get a decent 
road and then talk of visiting your district !" 
used to be the cry ; but this excuse is now 
removed to a very great extent. The cart road 
from Nawalapitiya to Barnagalla and thence on 
towards Gallemudena, or in its private section 
on to Penylan, leaves little to be desired so fat- 
as it goes ; but that is just the drawback, 
that the section which would carry the visitor 
on to the further boundary of the district has 
yet to be completed. It is too late, we fear, 
to prompt the pride of the present mler of 
the Colony. But seeing how many years 
we have entered in our Handbook among 
" Roads which ought to lie completed " — 
that from Bulatkohopitiya to Penylan,— we 
must • take the earliest opportunity of 
placing as a laudable ambition before our 
next Governor, the ability to drive his carriage 
and pair not only from Colomb* to Riumwella 
— unless the locomotive Supersedes t he neces- 
sity — but also frorii Kuwanwella to Nawala- 
pitiya right through • the country of the live 
holes." The Regalia revefitte district is thus 
well designated. It embraces a goodly portion 
pf tin- planting division of Dolosbage, and for 
detached hill ranges and narrow or extensive 
