August i, 1890.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
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two or three occasions when they went into the 
market with samples they had furnished from America, 
they had been unable to get those teas, and 
had been obliged to put it off for another season. 
The Chairman also pointed out that the present 
Company was trading under the auspices of the 
Planters’ Association. Naturally they were only 
interested in the pushing of Ceylon tea, and if for a 
moment it were discovered that other than Ceylon 
tea was being pushed that patronage would be 
withdrawn at once. 
Mr. Lanje said he would be content if it were a 
sine qua non that the tea sold should be Ceylon 
tea, but he agreed with Mr. Grinlinton that it 
might be a recommendation to Messrs. Wattson 
& Farr to buy as much as possible in the 
local market. The inducement offered in the 
local market at present was not sufficient, so 
that many planters had to send their teas to 
London. 
Mr. Harry Whiiham said that as far as he could 
sea from Messrs. Wattson dr Farr’s letters they 
did not desire that the directors should be replaced, 
and they could buy the tea here. He would make 
it a sine qua non that the tea should be bought 
through ibe present directors. 
Mr. Kkrikb, having formally worded his motion, 
proposed — “ That this meeting authorizes the 
directors to arrange the amalgamation with the 
American Company if they are satisfied with the 
terms offered," — so that the onus of the thing rested 
on the directors. (Laughter.) 
No amendment being proposed, and no further 
remarks being offered, the Chairman put the motion, 
and it was carried unanimously. 
The Chairman then said that having carried that 
resolution there were some other resolutions which 
were merely formal. They had been drafted by 
their legal adviser, Mr. Julius, who had gone care- 
fully through their Articles of Association. The 
resolutions were as follows : — 
I. — That the Directors of this Company are autho- 
rised to arrange terms for the sale or disposal of the 
business estate and effects of this Company to a Com- 
pany about to be promoted in America for the sale of 
Ceylon tea upon such terms and in such manner as the 
Directors shall think fit. 
II. — That the Directors of this Company are autho- 
rised to delegate their powers of arranging terms for 
the sale or disposal of the business estate and effects 
of this Company to any one member of their body and 
to grant to such member a Power of Attorney to act 
in America for the other Directors of this Company and 
for this Company and to arrange and enter into terms 
for the sale or disposal of the business estate and 
effects of this Company to a Company about to be pro- 
moted in America for the sale of Ceylon tea and to 
sign all necessary contracts and agreements on that 
behalf with any person or persons acting for or on 
behalf of the said proposed Company. 
III. — That a Power of Attorney be granted to the 
Hon’ble J. J. Grinlinton by the Company under sec. 44 
of the Joint Stock Companies Ordinance No. 4 of 1861 
empowering him to arrange terms for the sale and 
disposal ot the business estate and effects of this 
Company to a Company about to be promoted in 
America for the sale of Ceylou tea and to sign all 
necessary contracts and agreements on that behalf with 
any person or persons acting for on behalf of the said 
proposed Company. 
These resolutions having been separately pro- 
posed, seconded and carried, proxies were handed 
in, and the meeting concluded with a vote of 
thanks to the Chairman. 
There was one slip made by both Mr. Bois and 
Mr. Christie— they said that the 28,000proHiotiow 
s/tares represented “ j, of a million sterling." 
They were wrong— at twenty dollars eaoh it is 
£116,000 BterliDg.— iS'ecrstctrj/. 
PLANTING IN NEW GUINEA. 
A DIREOTOE OF A NEW PLANTATIONS COMPANY. 
A German gentleman named Mr. Kendt, with his 
wife and five children, arrived at Colombo on 
Saturday in the N. L. steamer “ Niirnberg.” 
They are at present staying at Mount Lavinia 
Grand Hotel, and intend to remain in the colony 
for a fortnight, when they will proceed by the 
“Preussen” lo Singapore, and afterwards to New 
Guinea, where Mr. Kendc will act as director of the 
New Guinea Plantations Company, Mr. Kendt, we 
believe, has really been engaged fay the German 
New Guinea Company to plant cacao and introduce 
other products. He has been in Trinidad, and 
besides being a specialist as regards cacao he 
is what may be called an all-round planter. Coco- 
nuts are the principal product of New Guinea at 
present, but there are also experimental plantations 
of tobacco, cotton and coffee. With the object of 
improving the cultivation of these things in New 
Guinea, and introducing new products, Mr. Kendt 
will spend most of his fortnight in Ceylon up- 
country, visiting various estates of cacao, coconuts, 
tea, &o. He will probably try the latter on the 
New Guinea plantations, and the industry generally 
will receive an impetus on his arrival. 
The African Forest. — Since I have made my 
map 1 have taken the trouble to measure the ex- 
tent of the area covered by this forest, and I find 
it to be something like 224,000,000 acres; and if 
we allow each tree 30 feet around for sufficient 
space, and only forty-eight trees to the acre, we 
have the colossal figure of 10,752,000,000 as the 
total number, and if we calculate the plants and 
saplings of the impenetrable undergrowth we shall 
be among the incalculable billions. — Stanley’s Ad- 
dress to the Boyal Geographical Society. 
Planters and Coolies. — A Province Wellesley 
planter writes to the Pinang Gazette to remove 
misapprehensions arising from the recent discovery 
of alleged ill-treated coolies on a Chinese estate 
there. He accounts for the neglect of sick labourers 
by the fact of Chinese being callous in cases of 
illness and putting no faith in medicine. He 
points out that the so-called debt slavery comes 
to nothing more than requiring coolies to work 
off the advances, without which they would not 
ngage themselves, a system authorised fay Ordi- 
enance. On his showing, employers want more 
protection than Chinese coolies who, so he says) 
are more rogues than fools.— Straits Times, May Ibths 
Bbazil Coffee. — There is a considerable 
touch of exaggeration in a recent report of Mr. 
Consul Cowper of fciantos which has been going 
the round of the London papers, speaking oi Sao 
Paulo district— or rather series of districts which 
find their outlet at Santos as likely to put those 
shipping through Bio de Janeiro completely into 
the shade. Last year July 1888 to June 1889, 
Santos exported 3 million bags ; this year 1889-90 
the total is likely to be a million short (the 
alternate crop) or 2 million bags ; but Consul 
Cowper expects over 3 millions in 1890-91 and 
that the immense districts now being brought into 
cultivation will soon assure 6 million bags (132 lb. 
each) and therefore equal to nearly 6 million cwt° 
But when the worthy Consul values the current 
crop of 2 million bags or 2,357,000 cwt. at 
Jil2, 000,000 sterling we can see that he “ draws 
the long bow ” or has a good deal to learn about 
coffee. The day has not come when coffee at 
Kantos can be valued at over lOOs per owt. all 
