October i, 1891,] 
26t 
aud boil dowu to a jelly — an operation that occopieo 
only a few niompiitfi, as the m aigr-e is ric in gfla in- 
Oas niateriiiln ; the pulp rerrmiriinir after jfHy > as b -eo 
removed may bo u ed t > ailvantfiee in making mar- 
malade. In the amount of sugar usad i^i maUiH ' j 
the h>usek-eper is sife in following- ' Id praoic s in 
this resppot with other fruifs It it^ imro=i«i>>lp ti gj"e 
exact rules in al: the operiti us c"nn c^ed wiih 
workiiiff un this fruit. In gpucial it wH be well to 
u?e, in boiling, wutT somewhat in gxopsb, an'l -st' e 
mangce " cooks" readily, oouctant watcntuluess is 
needed to prevent burning-. 
To sh.-w sometliini? of what is pifsi'^le in th« wav 
of r. sultH with this fruit, I ma^ say that in our ex- 
perini' nts thirtfen pood-sizad m-'ngces ff^ye onepint 
of jelly and five quor 3 of marff>«lade. Thia otT' ai^ h 
must be counted a vr-ry favourable, not to say remark- 
able, re.'ult. ..... 
It is cifar 'o m-^ that thero are gr?at prasi^n iti^q 
in connection with th" Q iPO'island nniinffos onip If 
)in' u 1011 the market in attr ct.ive form in th^ shap^ 
ofj lly «nd marm lad», i' woul' h.' o«rtaiii to come 
iut'i altnoR"- instant pnpu'arity ; and Ui at it mighf he 
manuf'ic'ured aud s >kl at a h.iudsome pr'-fi^ is 
appareut from the figures here given.— iJciH^'ooji Gazette. 
MANA GEASS BOARD FOR TEA BOXES 
A SUCCESS -A NEW INDUSTRY FOR 
CEYLON— STANLEY-WRIGHTSON SYNDI- 
CATE AND MR. ELWOOD MAY— 
PROSECUTION OP TEA ADUii- 
TERATORS. 
LoNBON, Aug. 28. 
At length, and during the present week, it has 
bepD possible for me to see the square tea boxes 
moulded, as regards the sides, in one single piece 
from the manH graps pulp. They were fSf-eedingly 
strong and servieeable looking, and it is intended, 
we h ar, to adopt the method of putting in the 
heads and bottom pieces followed by the Stantley- 
W.ights m Syodica e, though this, to my mind, 
may even yet he oonsideta*>ly simplified. The 
board of whioh the boxes are compose i is ex- 
ceedingly stout and hard, and even my weight — 
wbii'h is by no means inoonsiderah p — htd no i 3- ot 
towards altering their shape. Dr. Norman Evans 
himself hroiight these boxes to the oflice of the 
Stanlpy-WrightBon Syndicate, and txpre.sGd hia 
full satisfaction with them. 
It may be as well to give you the following 
extract from his report made to the Byndioate 
above-mentioned on the c mree ot manufacture 
that ha watched, and on its result. He wrote, 
under date of August 25th : — " The grass was boiled 
for eight hours with a pressure of forty pounds 
(of steam) and fifteen per cent, of lime. On visiting 
the mill on the morning of August 6th, I found the 
grass properly boiled. We were able to beat it in 
the engine for four hours with far less trouble 
than we had ever before had. To 200 lb. 
ot the dry grass was Rdlpd forty pounds of 
roui^h pnptr, which gave 150 lb. of dried board 
and barrelr'. The stuff ran well in the machine, 
giving good thick boards and barrels (".ee sppcimeus) 
which dried without b'istering or splitting. I think 
that this experimeaS conclusively eho vs that it is 
possible, with the addition of a comparatively 
small psroentage of old paper, to manufacture good 
solid boards out of mana grass. (Signed) P. 
NoBMiN Evans." 
Suooflss hav ng so far attended the repeated trials 
made with this material, the course io be followed 
to utilize thdir results has no* to be considered. 
Undue haste might be atti n led by dis-ippointm ot, 
buN wo havi ii said that ihc Univers I Barrel 
Oompauy intends nesotiating with the tjtanley- 
WrightBon Syndicate for the purchase of itsOeylon 
patent, and that it has already entered into 
comunication with a gentleman in Colombo with 
the object of arranging for working that patent in 
the ishmd It wouhl be premature to add anything 
to this statement; but we hope that it may prove 
to be the prelude to tho tuocepsful introduction 
of the manufacture of these tea boxes in some 
loeahty adjacpnt to your tea estates. It may 
perhaps be usefully added that, although quite 
new, the boxes had no appreciable smell. 
Funher with reference to the proceedings of 
the .-Stanlpy Wrighson Syndicate it may be written 
you that Mr. Elwood May proposes to purchase 
their Amerioan patent aud to manufacture boxes 
locally, which, aft. r that amount of embellishment 
that American taste seems to demand, will be used 
to distribute the tea to their customers. A Ira'ge 
amount of their tea, however, the American Ceylon 
lea Company proposes to send out from their stores 
in highly ornamental p ickets. Specimens of these 
we may expect to receive in England, and we shall 
be carious to see how the versatile ingenuity of 
our Amarican cousins can manage to i »^prove on 
our own methods of making up these packets. 
yllusion to this topic reminds me that some 
surprise is felt here at nothing having as yet been 
heard from your Plant? rs' Association wi'h respect 
to the letter from the Ceylon Atoociation in London 
containing a eugaestion as to some thirty adulter- 
tors of your tea'5 be'ng prosecufed. Although wa 
believ that opinion here is opened to wholesale 
prosecution 'of offenders, there is no doubt that it 
would be a wise course to make periodical raids oa 
these pests of your tea trade. To allow the system 
to go on of sehini^ mixtures as pure Ceylon tea with 
only a colorable pretext of an almost undistingaish- 
able label intimating that the contents of a packet, on 
mixture, must be to court the continuance of a 
practice very damaging to the extension of the sale 
of your ti a, aud we hope your local Association 
will countel the prosecution of a few at least 
among the chief offenders.- London Cor. 
♦ 
THE MINERAL WEALTH OF INDIA. 
Captain G. C. Townsend, e, a., will find many to 
agree with him in his opinion that ^the mineral 
resources of India have not received adequate atten- 
tion in the past, and that the country contains 
below its surface potentialities of wealth which 
might change its history and immensely improve 
the con-litiou of its people. Some also, perhaps, will 
think with him that such attention as the subject 
has received has beeu devoted too exclusively to 
gold and gems to the exclusion of the so called 
baser metals, especially iron, which are so much 
the most important factors in the history of the 
world as to have given names to the epochs of its 
existeiice. We fear, however, that all will lise from 
a perusal of his brochure with ideas very little 
more defiuite than before as to the means for the 
attainment of this wealth. The httle book is dis- 
appointing in that it gives glimpses of great possi- 
bilities without laying down any praotical.de road 
to their realizition ; it demonstrates that tb ^re is 
mineral wealth in India, it shows tlie obstacles to 
its exploitation, but it hardly indicates, even 
vaguely, tho means for overcoming those obstacles. 
The author does not claim to have evolved an ex- 
haustive treatise ; he has deliberately made his 
work a mere sk toll in tho hope that it will attract 
readers that a more ponderous tone would deter ; 
but h' h'lS not made the mo->t o' th,<i space ha has 
allowed himself. In fact, the book ooniains more 
than the usual amount of pa'Jding. One-third of 
