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Emigration  from  Tinnevelly  to  Ceylon  during  tlie  last  5 years- 
"NTrv  r\i  TT.minrvantq 
1887 
Adults. 
. . 22,837 
1888 
. . 24,156 
1889 
..  23,319 
1890 
..  15,717 
1891 
. . 36,679 
(Signed) 
Children 
3,044 
3,563 
3,084 
1,886 
4,170 
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Total. 
25,881 
27,719 
26,403 
17,603 
40,849 
8.  Forbes, 
3rd  March,  1892.  ' ' ^ Collector. 
Statement  of  emigration  to  and  from  the  Straits,  Burmah  and 
Ceylon  from  and  to  all  parts  of  the  Tan]ore  District. 
Straits 
Ceylon. 
4,171 
3,841 
5,695 
6,087 
Year. 
Settlements. 
Burmah. 
To  . . 
..  14,917 
13,022 
1890 
From  . . 
. . 9,906 
6,232 
To 
. . 28,062 
18,395 
1891 
From 
. . 23,650 
13,887 
22nd  February,  1892 
(Signed) 
Acting  Collector. 
Tanjore  Collector’s  Office, 
Vallam,  22nd  February  1892.  _ 
Dear  Mr.  Young, — I find  that  the  figures  of  emi- 
gration to  end  from  Ceylon  which  I gave  to  you  the 
other  day  do  not  include  figures  for  the  minor  ports. 
1 enclose  herewith  a corrected  statement. 
The  figures  for  Ceylon  are  not  quite  so  bad  as  the 
former  statement  made  out. — Yours  sincerely, 
(Signed)  H.  M.  WinterbotHam. 
E.  Young,  Esq. 
FROM  THE  METROPOLIS. 
London,  Jane  3rd,  1892, 
TEA  PROSPECTS. 
It  is  quite  evident  now  that  most  of  the  Ceylon 
planters  have  gone  in  this  year  bo  far  for 
finer  plucking  and  therefore  finer  teas.  The 
average  quality  is  pronounced  decidedly  bet- 
ter, and  the  continued  low  exports  (compara- 
tively) show  one  great  result  of  the  change  in 
harvesting  and  manufacture  ; but  the  prioes  in 
Minoing  Lane  have  scarcely  justified  this 
course.  At  any  rate,  there  is  now  again  so 
close  an  appreciation  between  the  prioes  paid  for 
fine,  medium  and  common  teas  as  to  encourage 
the  manufacture  of  quantity  rather  than  best 
quality.  Whatever  Mr.  Hawes  may  Bay  to  the 
contrary,  the  home  trade  and  Lane  buyers  do  not 
offer  encouraging  prices  for  fine  teas,  and  accord- 
ingly it  is  not  unlikely  that  the  latter  half  of 
1892  may  see  rather  ooarser  plucking  once  more 
set  in,  though  I trust  no  one  will  dare  to  send 
home  the  absolute  trash  experienced  and  con- 
demned in  some  cases  last  year. — I hear  from 
a gentleman  in  the  Provinces  that  the  latest 
fad  in  tea  is  a desire  for  “ unfermented  tea.” 
•‘Could  you,"  he  adds,  “get  - anyone  to  send 
us  home  a sample  of  leaves  dried  in  the  same 
way  as  coca?  All  the  bruising  and  manipulating 
is  supposed  to  be  so  much  humbug — 1 why  not 
send  it  home  with  the  theine  sealed  up  in  its 
natural  vessels?’  say  the  wiseacres,”  There  are 
doubtless  good  reasons  whioh  the  Chinese  long  ago 
discovered,  but  meantime  to  satisfy  British  faddists 
there  oan  be  no  harm  in  trying  the  experiment  above 
referred  to. — Referring  to  the  recent  correspondence 
on  Ceylon  Tea  in  the  Financial  News  and  Mr.  T. 
C.  Owen’s  remarks,  it  is  of  interest  to  give  the 
following  further  details  from  a letter  whioh  Mr. 
Owen  has  kindly  sent  me: — 
In  your  review  of  Ceylon  tea  you  refer  to  the 
aroma  from  new  land;  and  I find  from  my  personal 
experience  that  do  what  you  cm  this  delicate  flavour 
cannot  be  got  again.  In  Goomera,  for  example,  I tried 
fine  plucking  for  two  months  this  spring ; I sacrificed 
33  per  cent  of  my  quantity,  and  do  what  I oonld  I 
could  not  do  more  than  raise  the  value  of  tea  from 
7d  or  7Jd  to  8Jd  or  9d  ! Armstrong,  with  whom  I 
discussed  the  matter  a week  or  so  ago  when  he  was 
in  town,  says  his  Rookwood  experience  is  exactly 
the  same.  I think  Hawes  is  right  in  saying  that 
new  gardens  possess  a certain  delicate  flavour  whioh 
they  afterwards  lose;  he  is  wrong  when  he  attributes 
this  to  any  exhaustion  of  the  bush  from  over- 
plucking and  the  “ greed  of  the  average  planter.” 
No  doubt,  if  it  paid  us  we  could  all  greatly  improve 
our  qnality  by  plucking  finer,  and  thus  not  only 
get  better  leaf  but  also  have  more  factory  room  ; 
but  I fear  that  in  few  cases  should  we  again  get 
what  you  call  “aroma,”  and  what  I call  a deli- 
cate “ flavour,”  which  characterises  tea  from  new 
land.  Portswcod  is  an  example  of  a very  high  estate 
with  exceptionally  fine  soil  that  has  preserved  the 
delicate  character  of  its  tea  for  an  unusual  period, 
and  I trust  it  will  continue  to  do  so  and  prove  that 
to  every  rule  there  is  an  exception.  I am  glad  to 
be  in  England  again  for  a bit,  but  we  leave  in  October 
for  Ceylon  again. 
” -<► 
WYNAAD  AND  CEYLON. 
( From  our* South  Wynaad  Correspondent.) 
I have  been  travelling  recently  and  during  my  tour 
I have  obtained  some  exceedingly  interesting  inform- 
ation about  tea  planting  in  Ceylon.  My  authority  is 
excellent,  that  of  a keen  and  appreciative  observer, 
who  has  the  interests  of  tea  very  much  at  heart ; 
and  who  in  suoh  interests  has  been  fulfilling  the 
oharaoter  of  “ a cheil  takin  notes.”  1 asked  him  his 
