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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST [Feb. 1, 1899. 
heard of the pest, as it generally confines itself 
to one species of plant. Tiiere is no recoril of 
this insect in Sir Emerson Tennant's exhaustive 
hook, ami the natural history colleclion of tlie 
Britith Museum do not contain a specimen. 
TIMBER TKA CHESTS COMPANY, LTD. 
The following prospectus has heiMi Is.iued : — Share 
Capital £8,000. Divided into 8,O0J slifuea of £1 each. 
Present issue £7,000 of which £2,(iiH)is now offered for 
subscription, payble 10/ — on applicatioc and 10/ — on 
allotment. 
Directors. — * Edward Ames, 52, Leo Terraca, Black- 
heath, S.K., Jainei Lloyd AusUuth jr, Hyde I'.irk 
Court, S. W., Ei'oeat Henry Gregoi'v, Hi, f-iishop'if^ate 
Street Within, E.U. Secretary (pr •. tcin) aiij Oliice:i 
Theodora Hamilton Ho.ste, 22, Fe-ichucch Street. 
Solicitors. — King, Burrell & Maizetti, 77, Greshani 
Street, E.C. Auditors. — Singleton, F vbiao & Co., 31, 
Nicholas Lane, E.C. B.^nkers. — IjOiidon Joint Stock 
Bank, Ltd., Gi'eat Tower Street, E.C. 
This^Company is incorporated to carry out a Contract 
with the Ceylon and General Syndicate, Limited, to 
acquire and car) y on an agency for the sale in India 
and Ceylon of Veneer Tea Chests. 
The purchase price to be paid by the Company for 
the above Contract has been fi.'ced liy the Ceylon and 
General Syndicate, Limited, who are the vendors 
and are selling at a profit, at £.5,000, piyable in 5,000, 
fully paid £1 Shares of the Company, leiving tlie 
sum of £3,000 in £1 shares to be subscribed for, and 
it is now proposed to issue 2,000 in fully paid up 
shares of £1 each, which is considered to ba Buffi- 
cient for the working capital. 
The vendors will piy all expenses of and inciden- 
tal to the formation and registration of the Company 
up to allotment. 
The following contracts relative to the said Agency 
and the acquisition thereof by the Company have 
been entered into : — 
An agreement dated the 28th day of October, 1898, 
and made between William Cuthbert McCallum and 
Peter George Stanhope Payne of the one part and 
Edward Ames of the other part. 
An agreement dated the ist day of November, 
1898, and made between the said Edward Ames of 
the one part and the Ceylon and General Syndicate, 
Limited, of the other part. 
An agreement dated the 2nd day of November, 
1898, and made between the said Ceylon and General 
Syndicate, Limited, of the one part and James Ben- 
nett, as Trustee for and on hehalf of the Company, 
of the other part. 
Application for shares should be made on the form 
accompanying the Prospectus, and can be sent to the 
Company's Bankers with the amount pay^ihle on ap- 
plication. 
If no allotment is made the deposit will be returned 
in full, and in case the number of shares allotted is 
less than the number applied for, the balance will be 
applied towards the payment on allotment. 
Dated this 21st day of Nov., 1898. 
«i — 
Planting in Southern India.— Writing from 
the Coimbatore district about the end of the 
year, Mr. E. J. Martin formerly of the Kelani 
Valley, rei^orts :— " We have some niagnilicent 
soil and a line climate and I am much pleased 
with the laud and climate up here, after the 
Kelani Valley. I have several Sinhalese here w ho 
are felling and are quite happy and contented. 
Being a new district we have many difliculties 
to contend with, one espscially beiny transport ; 
but, a cart road is being pusiied on as fast as 
possible and the engineer's only dillicnlty is that 
he can't siiend the money fast enough." 
* Will join the Board after Allotment, 
TO COFFEE PLANTERS. 
We (Eio }>^ews) have received the followin;^ 
letter from an experienced coffee estate manager 
in (.'eylon, who desires an engagement in Brazil. 
As some of the new undertakings may wish 
such a manager, we give such parts of the letter 
a^ will show his capacity and experience, and 
will gl.-ully jjive his address to any one who may 
wish to correspond witli liim direct. Our corres- 
|j. indent, who writes 2Stli September, sayn : 
" The enclosed newspaper cutting taken from 
the daily Ceylon Observer of ycsterday'n date*, 
— a paper doubtless well known to you, — lea<is 
me to take the liberty of asking you if thcie 
arc any ('ofl'ce companies, Brazilian, Engli»li <ir 
ticrman, in want of the services of a ihoroi.^^hly 
competent and experienced collee plainer, —one 
well up in c ill'ee cultivation and curing in nil ii^ 
hr. inches, and al)le to take up the entire m.-magenicnt 
of a comp tny's properties ; and, should ilicie lit», | 
shall feel very much obliged if you could |nii me into 
CO nmunication with any such companies. 
I may st:Ue that I have had 23 yearw' ex- 
perience altogether as a practical planter in cofl'ee 
and in othei prodnets, and hold lirsl clasg tehti- 
monials and can give lir.st-dass references if need 
be. I am thoroughly versed in all the techni- 
cal ties of pruning and manuring coffee and in 
draining the iaml and reading it, and thorouglily 
acquainted with Cofiee machinery and tlie erec- 
tion of all necess.iry buildings; an<l I feci «me 
I could do a good deal, not only to improve 
collee cultivation generally, but to ' raise the price 
ot the cured coffee. 
Sir W. Jicnner and " Tka."— Wc are much 
obliged to Air. C. Tottenham— now un hi.s way 
out to Ceylon— for drawing our attention to a 
liaragraph in the London Ghhe of 13tli December, 
containing Sir W. Jenner's experience of tea 
drinking. No doubt the decea.sed doctor took 
care to have his tea properly infused. We quote 
as follows : — 
Tea drinkers can point to the life of tho late Sir 
W. Jenner as evidence of the virtues of their parti- 
cular beverage, even when taken to excess, for 
throughout his busy career the distinguished physi- 
cian's sole stimulant was tea. He drank it with his 
lunch, he took it in his carriage while on his round 
of afternoon cousultations, he drank it again at din- 
ner, and tea was taken as a " nightcap." With 
many persons tea causes indigestion, but not so with 
the deceased doctor, for with his affeciion for tea 
^as combined a love of the table. According to Dr. 
Cooper Bentham, who was his assistant for 15 years, 
ho was -'a great feeder." During those yearo from 
1875 until his retirement in 1889 Sir W. Jenner made 
a large income averaging from £12,000 to £15,00u per 
annum, not counting exceptional fees. Dr. Bentham, 
ill a communication to the " Telegraph," says the late 
Sir A. Clark boasted ha once made £24,000 a year, 
but it was hard to understand how he did it. Sir 
William received two very laige fees in the cour-^e 
of his practice, each of £5,000 and from Americans. 
He took as much as 1,00'J guineas a day in country 
journeys. Sir W. Jenner, wiio was Physician-in Ordi- 
nary to the Queen, attended the Prince Consort in 
his last illness, and brought the Prince of Wales 
lafely through the attack of typhoid fevsr in 1871. 
We need merely add that Sir \V. Jenner was 
83 when he died. 
* The cutting is that of our note in reference to 
the ' Coffee Planters Manual for 1898." compiitd by 
Mr. J. Ferguson, of Colombo, Ceylon, which could 
be ordered through Messrs. Crashley & Co, of tbig 
city, — Eds. JS'ews, 
