Oct.  i,  1892.] 
THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
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CEYLON  TEA  IN  AUSTRALIA. 
The  Sydney  Daily  Telegraph  of  24th  August 
records  a little  business  in  Ceylon  teas  at  from 
lOJd  to  12d  ; and  the  same  paper  in  its  issue  of 
27th  August  announces  the  sale  of  40  chests  Ceylon 
at  8|  d to  9d.  The  Melbourne  Argus  of  29th  August 
says  : — 
Ceylons  have  had  steady  attention  at  late  rates.  The 
Custom-house  statement  of  receipts  and  deliveries  of  tea 
at  the  bonds  for  the  last  week,  together  with  the  stocks 
in  bond  at  the  close  of  the  weeek,  is  as  follows 
Deliveries. 
Receipts 
into 
Bond. 
lb. 
For  Home 
Con- 
sumption, 
lb. 
For 
Export. 
lb. 
Stocks 
on 
Aug.  20. 
lb. 
China  ... 
India  ... 
Ceylon 
...  3,850 
...177,944 
...  73,202 
89,978 
6 615 
12j879 
46,692 
5,389 
14,563 
1,797,113 
187,030 
159,693 
Totals 
...254,996 
109,472 
66,644 
2,143,836 
CONSULAR  REPORTS. 
MACAO. 
Mr.  H.  B.  Joly  writes  the  British  Consular  Report 
oa  the  trade  of  Macao  for  the  year  1891,  which  Mr. 
Watters  forwards.  Mr.  Joly  writes  : — 
The  year  1891  has  been,  so  far  as  trade  is  con- 
cerned, a very  uneventful  one,  business  having  con- 
tinued in  the  same  groove,  presumably  with  some 
falling-off,  as  the  export  of  tea  and  rice  was  below 
former  years.  As  regards  imports,  the  usual  average 
must  have  been  attained,  as  the  supplies  necessary 
for  the  consumption  of  the  colony  and  neighbouring 
districts  continued  to  arrive. 
EXPORTS. 
Tea. — Tea  appears  from  year  to  year  to  lose  ground 
and  to  feel  more  and  more  the  competition  from 
India  and  Ceylon.  Lower  prices  than  heretofore  ruled 
during  the  last  year,  but  none  the  less,  no  great  pro- 
fits seem  to  have  been  realised.  Indeed,  heavily 
handicapped  as  the  teas  exported  from  Macao  are, 
not  by  duties  here,  as  this  colony  is  a free  port,  but 
by  inland  imports  levied  by  the  Chinese  authorities, 
they  can  with  difficulty  hold  their  own,  and  would 
seem  to  be  doomed  to  a heavy  shrinkage.  The 
quantity  exported  during  1891  amounts  to  about 
155,000  chests,  and  falls  short  of  that  of  1890,  so 
that  this  branch  of  trade,  which  was  once  the  most 
important  here,  gradually  becomes  more  and  more 
insignificant. — L.  and  C.  Express,  Aug.  19th. 
NOTES  ON  PRODUCE  AND  FINANCE. 
Tea  Planting  in  Wynaad. — A writer  in  the  Madras 
Times  takeB  a very  favourable  view  of  the  outlook  for 
tea  planting  in  the  Wynaad,  and  he  winds  up  by 
saying: — "Wynaad  has,  unfortunately,  an  evil  name 
in  the  London  money  market.  So  much  capital  was 
collected  and  squandered  in  the  gold  mania  of  a 
previous  decade,  that  it  is  thought  that  no  good  thing 
can  come  out  of  it.  But  this  prejudice  is  being 
gradually  overcome,  and  we  may  hope  to  see  the 
district  rise  again  before  long  to  something  of  its 
former  success.  New  blood  and  new  capital  will 
again  flow  in,  to  the  encouragement  of  the  old 
planters  who  have  survived  the  many  vicissitudes  of 
the  past,  and  of  whom  the  planting  community  of 
Wynaad  mostly  consists.’’  He  is  quite  right  about  the 
prejudice.  The  sons  and  daughters  of  Mammon,  when 
they  have  a prejudice,  show  considerable  persistency  in 
holding  on  to  it.  That  unfortunate  gold  business 
oreated  an  unfavourable  impression  in  LondoD,  and 
the  mention  of  the  Wynaad  even  now  provokes  strong 
language  in  eertain  circles,  who  are  quite  ignorant 
of  the  fact  that  tea  is  grown  there,  but  associate  it 
only  with  mining  speculation.  The  district  will  live 
down  its  bad  name,  no  doubt,  and  we  hope  that  tea 
-will  flourish  and  renew  confidence. 
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Pubb  Tea. — The  Groter  calls  attention  to  the  care 
taken  by  the  Customs  authorities  that  only  pure  tea 
is  sold  to  grocers  and  the  public.  It  says : — “ If  the 
article  be  cot  pure  it  is  not  permitted  to  enter  into 
consumption  in  this  country.  Under  Seotion  30  of 
the  Sale  of  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  tea  is  analysed  at 
the  Custom  House,  so  as  to  ensure  that  there  is 
nothing  in  the  shape  of  adulteration  in  the,  imports ; 
and  if  the  same  plan  were  practised  in  regard  to  one 
or  two  other  commodities  that  might  be  named,  re* 
tailers  certainly  would  not  feel  disposed  to  complain. 
We  subjoin  a table  showing  the  results  of  the  analysis 
of  tea  conducted  at  the  London  Custom  House,  in 
aooordance  with  the  statute  above  mentioned,  during 
eaoh  of  the  last  ten  financial  years:— 
Importations  represented  by  these  samples 
thus  disposed  of. 
Submitted  for  board’s  directions 
with  following  results. 
Allowed  to 
be  delivered 
De- 
for  exporta- 
O 
Tear 
livered 
Allowed 
to 
tion  only, 
ended 
Samples 
on  certi- 
be  admitted 
but  not  for 
If 
March 
ana- 
ficate  of 
for  home 
use  as 
31- 
lysed. 
analyst. 
use. 
ships’  stores. 
<1 
1883.... 
890 
867 
13 
7 
4 
1881.... 
855 
346 
6 
1835 
930 
890 
2 
39 
3 
1886.... 
2,348 
2,168 
25 
155 
4 
1387.... 
1,701 
1,651 
800 
2 
41 
1 
1888.... 
956 
11 
9 
76 
1889.... 
650 
527 
19 
40 
64 
1890.... 
856 
808 
25 
12 
1891 
518 
452 
1 
52 
13 
1892... 
932 
874 
25 
19 
14 
Planting  in  Nokth  Borneo.— 
■Theprospeot  in  North 
Borneo  seems  more  cheerful.  Pineapples  are  for  sale 
in  abundance  at  two  cents  each,  if  anyone  likes  to 
stait  a pineapple  jelly  factory.  Pepper  and  coffee 
growing  by  the  Dyaks  is  receiving  the  attention  of 
the  Raja,  who  is  parcelling  out  land  in  the  Lnndi 
distriot,  where  tobacco  hes  been  grown.  Ten  piouls 
of  coffee  grown  in  gardens  in  Sandakan  and  another 
shipment  of  North  Borneo  coffee  have  also  been  sent 
home.  The  trial  shipment  of  ten  piculs  of  Liberian 
coffee  grown  in  gardens  at  the  back  of  Sandakan  and 
shipped  by  the  Development  Corporation  has  been  very 
well  reported  upon  in  London,  and  valued  at  93s  per 
owt.  if  properly  dried.  Coffee,  sugar,  oopra,  tanning 
material,  Manilla  hemp,  and  paddy  are  all  produots 
of  world-wide  demand  and  likely  to  afford  material 
for  export ; and  now  a start  has  been  made  in  the 
right  direction.  Cocoa,  pepper,  indiarubber,  gambier, 
and  other  things  are  being  tried,  and  experiments  are 
been  made  with  three  descriptions  of  cotton — Shanghai, 
Sea  Island  reoeived  direct,  and  Sea  Island  already 
acclimatised  in  a tropical  oountry.  Of  these  the 
acclimatised  Sea  Island  is  doing  the  best. — H,  and  C. 
Mail,  Aug.  26. 

BRAZILIAN  COFFEE. 
Brazil  has  juBt  broken  her  own  record  with  regard 
to  the  production  of  coffee.  The  crop  of  the  season 
just  closed  is  deolared  to  be  the  largest  yet  known. 
The  total  shipments  during  the  twelve  months, 
including  the  stocks  left  over  at  Rio  and  Santos 
on  June  30,  are  estimated  by  Messrs.  Alexander 
von  Glehn  & Co.  at  7,530,000  bags,  as  compared 
with  6,705,200  bags  for  the  year  ended  June  30, 
1889 — the  previous  largest  crop  on  record.  Favoured 
by  the  big  crop  and  lower  prioes,  consumption  has 
nearly  kept  pace  with  the  increased  production, 
deliveries  showing  an  advance  of  about  1,000,000 
bags  during  the  year,  so  that  stooks  in  European 
ports  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  month  were 
not  more  than  87,285  tons,  against  64,526  tons 
on  August  1,  1891.— Oolonies  and  India, 
