May 1, 1903.] THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
783 
A new Director and Auditor will have to be ap. 
pointed ia place of Mr. A H Dansmure and Mr. W 
H Graham. 
Expenditure to date :— 126,132.91 Ceylon Ex- 
penaea 4,729. 17 
Estimate of Ex. for 1903 15,800. 
„ 1901 14,216. 
1905 16,357, 
172,535* 91 
NEW EUBBEE COMPANIES. 
Bolivian Kubber and General ENTiJRPRisE, 
Ltd. (76,699).— Kegistered March 16, with capital 
£150,000, in £1 shares, to adopt an agreement 
with C Cliavanne, S Ohavanne and H Ferreccio, 
to acquire rubber concessions and rights, to exploit 
rubber properties in Bolivia or elsewhere, to enter 
into any arrangement with any supreme munici- 
pal or local authorities, or others with reference 
to any charters or privileges or otherwise, to 
prospect, examine, and explore any countries and 
places, to employ and equip expeditions, com- 
missions, experts and agents, to work, develop, 
carry out, exercise, develop and turn to account 
any properties, rights and privileges acquired by 
the company, to search for, win, i/et and prepare 
for market auriferous sand, quartz and ore and 
other mineral substances, to carry on business as 
sawyers, carriers, farmers, general merchants and 
financiers, etc. The subscribers are : 
Shares. 
H Ferreccio, Fucnman, Argentine Republic, gent . . 1 
P Bnrelier, Tzienrs (Loirf!), France, gent . . 1 
E Copping, 18, St. Swithin's Lane, E C, secy . . 1 
A fi Lidbnry, 75, Granville Bd, Walthamstow, oik... 1 
W S Lart, Worcester, House, E C, elk ». 1 
C A Kuight, 6, Upper Av, Rd, Hampatead N W, 
eugr ... 1 
E Bird, St. Swithin's Lane, E C, housekeeper . . 1 
Minimum cash subscription 10 per cent, of the 
shares offered to the public. The first directors 
(not to be less than 3 nor more than 7) are C A 
Knight, I Chavanne, P Burelier and H Ferreccio ; 
qualification .500 shares ; remuneration £100 each 
per annum and 5 per cent, of the dividend in excess 
of 10 per cent, dividend, Kegistered oflice, 18, St. 
Swithin's Lane, E.G. 
Pataling Rubber Estates SSynd, Ltd.'* 
(76,766).— liegistered March 20, with capital 
£30,000, in £i shares, to adopt an agreement with 
Miss M Bennett and H W Brett, for the acquisition 
of the Pataliiif!; Estate, containing about 2,000 
acres on Klang River, 5 miles from Kwala 
Lumpor, Federated Malay estates, held from the 
Government by the said Miss F M Bennett under 
a Selangor Laud Grant for 999 years from 1895, 
to grow and cultivate rubber, coconuts, coiree 
and other produce, and to carry on the business 
of planters, etc. The subscribers are : 
Shares, 
H W Brett, Halliford-ou-Thames, gent ... 250 
T Ritchie. J P, Cromer ... 250 
F W Chaine, Heathercrof t, Totland Bay, late 
LientRN .. 250 
J L Anstruther, Wellington Court, Albert Gate, 
S W, Csylon estate proprietor .. 250 
WS Bennett, The Point, Bath Road, Reading, gent 250 
N N Blomefield, 45, Bloomsbury Sq, W C, sole ... 1 
A T White, 74, Tremadoc Road, Clapham, S W, elk 1 
Minimum cash subscription £7,000. The num- 
ber of directors ia not to be less than 3 nor more 
than 5 ; the first are J L Anstruther, W S Bennett, 
H W Brett, l" ^Y Chainc and T Rilciiie, J P ; 
qualification £250; remuneration £50 each per 
annnm Registered by Warren, Muvton and Miller, 
45, Bloomsbury Square, Vi'.C. 
South American India-Rubbeb Co, Ltd. 
(76,755).— Registered March 19, with capital 
£500, in £1 shares, to acquire, prepare, import, 
sell and deal in India rubber, caoutchouc, gum, 
elastic, gutta percha or other gums in their crude 
state, and to manufacture and deal in any articles of 
things made of the said substances. No initial 
Eublic issue. The number of directors is not to 
e more than 5 ; the subscribers are to appoint 
the first. Kegistered by Paines, Blyth and Hux- 
table, 14, St. Helen's Place, E. C — Investors' 
Guardian, March 28, 
INDIAN VS. CEYLON GREENS. 
RELATIVE COST OF MANUFACTURE AND 
LONDON PRICES, 
A merchant with considerable experience and 
knowledge of the Ceylon Green Tea trade writes 
in regard to Mr. Judge's letter published on 
page 775, as follows: — 
With regard to Mr. Charles Judge's letter 
to you, it will be noted from the weekly 
sales of greens held in Colombo that the 
average rates obtained for the teas of various 
gardens average from 33 cents to 39 cents per 
lb., depending upon the quality and elevation 
of the estate. " G.T. " 's statement in a letter 
addressed to the newspapers dated 25th March 
(which stated that the greens cost 4 cents more 
to manufacture than blacks) cannot be endorsed 
by any but careless manufacturers in Ceylon. 
As stated by one of Mr. Judge's Indian corre- 
spondents, the cost of firewood is necessarily 
slightly in excess of the cost of firewood for 
black teas, as there is a larger percentage of 
moisture to expel from the Green Tea. Many 
estates, however, turn out quite as large a 
percjentage of green as of black tea ; so that 
India has no advantage over Ceylon in this 
respect. Where firewood is scarce and dear, 
the extra cost for fuel is a serious item, As 
regards Indian Green tea fetching higher prices 
than those of Ceylon manufacture in Loudon, a 
glance at Messrs. Gow Wilson and Stanton's Cir- 
culars for February and March, to take a 
convenient period, will show how prices rule. 
On February 6th no green tea averages were 
given. On February 13th a break of Ceylon 
Young Hyson fetched an average of SJ, while 
the average obtained for a break of 58 packages 
including Young Hyson, Hyson No. 1, Hyson 
No. 2, Fanuings and Dust got an average of 
G|. In the February 27th circular a break of 
Indian Greens, including onlj' Hyson and Hyson 
No. 1, got an average of 7|, while a break of 
Ceylon Tea including all grades — Young Hyson, 
Hyson No. 1, Hyson No. 2, and Fannings and 
Dust also got an average of 74 notwithstanding 
that it included two more grades than the 
Indian break. In the March Gth circular a Ceylon 
break including four grades is recorded as having 
obtained a 6;cl average, while an Indian con- 
signment only gels 5Jd, while the break only 
included two grades. In March 13th's circular a 
break of Indian Green Tea gets an average of 
6d for three grades, while in the riarch 27th 
circular a break of Ceylon including two grades 
got an average of 5Jd, 
