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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[May I, 1891. 
Humiliated at ni^ht); wliilo Maior-Geueral Clive, 
Justice and the officers of the Army, Mijitia and 
Voluuteers were not behindhand. Limited as 
B^ficein tbeTroiiical Agr iciiltiiribt is, we must make 
room for the following editorial remarks : — 
YVhdi the public Icok at the diagram exhibited by 
the Jamaica Institute, showing the cane lauds culti- 
vated in 1790, the chief of the so-called “ palmy days ” 
of old, and turn to the compauic n diagram showing 
the cane lane’s cultiiated toiiay, they will see some 
reason for writing of a imo Jamaica. Whether a better 
or a worse is not the question. When they turn to 
another diagram showing the extent of the small hold- 
ings at this date, and remember bow few they were a 
century ago, they wiil be still more convinced that the 
Jamaica of today is a very differ' sit thing from what 
it was, 'When they turn again from those thing.s to 
the educational and other statistics that indicate 
material, intellectual, and moral advancement, they 
will have before them proofs of a change amounting 
to a revolution that has not been all the circum- 
stances considered, snywhere exceeded wiihin the 
same number of years. It would bo easy to point 
out ill history many great and re.narkable changes, 
bat these who try will find it hard to point 
out one that exceeds in interest what has been effected 
here. It took that master lawgiver Moses more than 
his own life-time to build up a notion out of the op- 
pressed Israelites. Ho did, however, good and lasting 
work. He maiie a people a? endunug as graLite. 
The modern lawgiver, the Hiitish Parliament and 
Exeou ive, in'itructed by ilic BdLsh People, did a 
Blmilar creative work, when during fifty years previous 
to enia’ic'pati.m they abolishid the Slave Trade and 
watched jealously end carefully over the rights of 
the slaves, and when fir the ti;ty years that followi d 
they watched with equal care over the interests of 
the emancipated people. The result is the strong, 
growing- new Jam'-ica that has made an Exhibition 
possible here, and is going to make it a success. 
This newness, with its assured continuance, is the 
great fact that should atlia.t the attention of cur 
more the rightful visitors. 
There is another new thing connected with Jamaica. 
The character of its scenery is not new'. So far from 
that, it is as old as the h'.l’s. But the recoguition 
of it and of the character of the climate is new. 
As Sic AValter Scott was said to have discovered Scot- 
land in respect to scenery, so recent travellers have 
been discoveriug the tiutb, of the Goverucr’s words, 
that Jsmfiica is one of the loveliest islands in the 
world. 
What is anticipated for Jamaica might well be 
realized m the case of Ceylon, in the resort of 
visitors who desire to escape Irom depressing cold 
to genial warmth; — 
If those who have eyes to see and natures fitting 
them to enj -y what is ^'eautiful in scenery will in 
twos or threes make a leisurely jo iney from Kingston 
to L-icea via Ewatton and by way either of tho 
iute i' rorthc. coa'.t road, they will see in this month 
of January what will astonish them if they come from 
cold and Icuflcs-i England or Canada. ^ To_ transport 
ill a day or in fouitfc-u days a nezou Eitglishnien or 
Uamuliais to 8^. Ann’s, Trelawny, St. James, or 
llai over as ' liev m w are, would he a great surprise lo 
people who think of us as sweltering under tropical 
heat, furroini'i'. d by parched fields, and hardly able to 
b;ar up under the bun ei s of (xistoi ce. They iliid 
thcniBijves in a (.•an'.tii, driving Hong main ro»ds as 
snifoth ard plcaraiit as any in the woral, where the 
scars m '.(u; liy p!';'.i-; xo or i-hovcl are sooti hetth d, and 
im iiro all r-uad wears a robe of riches anl m ’st 
varieil grcfti, utid wltc-rc the tortus as well ns th 
erdanrs of plu.t lifo are str kmgly attrattive and 
heantifui. tS'hi-n they thought of what they had left 
behind of tl..- cold anil tho nultediiess of the ai.d, cf 
(ho Hiru;gle in the jiart of tlmu.sai.ds to kee(> up the 
fire ill Uio “ livii,;' atom s ” which (-very anima' body is, 
Ui( y might ■■• eM ttiiuk that they had come to winter 
11 , paiad e. The thoiiH.t wouM be literally correct. 
Some of our prcHcm visitors will, when they go homo, 
lay CO, and come hack often aud send otliers. 
CEYLON PLANTERS' AMERICAN TEA 
COAIPANY. 
teanseerence oe business. 
THE TB.'.DE WITH AMERICA. 
At noon of April 9 lb, a meeting of the Ceylon Plan- 
te- ru’ American Tea Co., Ld. was held in the registered 
offices of the Company (Darloy, Butler & Co.’s) 9, 
Queen Sheet, Fort, Colombo. Mr. L. H. Kelly 
presided, and the others present were the Hon. 
J. J. Grinlinton, Messrs. V. A. Julius, A. H, 
Thompson, E.B. Creasy, H. Whitham, J. F. Headrick 
and W. W. Mitchell, bj his attorney Mr, J. F. 
Headrick. Mr. Grinlinton had proxies from 
Messrs. G. Loss, Le Vallon, Pussellawa, and 
James Wc-sHand, Gammadua, Eattota. After the 
appioval of the minutes of the previous meeting, 
Mr. Kelly explained that at the last general 
meeting it was decided by the shareholders present 
that the best course they could adopt was to ac- 
cept the arrangement which had been made by the 
Hon. .Mr. Grinlinton on behalf of the Ceylon 
Planters’ American Tea Co. with the new Company 
in America— the Ceylon Planters’ Tea Co. It was 
thought most advisable that they should hand over 
th' ir old Company to this new Company who 
were prepared lo undertake it. That was tho 
feeling of the shareholders at the last meeting, 
and it was then hft to the directors to arrange 
all tho preliminaiies. The direc'tois had done so, 
and this meeting bad been called to endorse their 
action, to deeiaia the winding up of the old Com- 
pany and hand it over to the new Company. The 
shateholders were perfectly well aware of the 
reasons which had necessitated this step, and he 
could only hope with his Liother directors that 
the step which the shareholders had taken 
was a wise one and would not only lead to the fur- 
thering and pushing of Ceylon tea in America, but 
also turn tut a profitable sptculation for tboee 
who aro interested iu it. (Hear, hear.) After 
reading tho formal resolutions which it was 
necotsary lo pass, Mr. Kelly proceeded to say that 
the directors this morning went through the list 
of defaulters and bad decided to forfeit the shares 
of those who had not paid up. Where, however, the 
slightest doubt might exist in the case — for instance, 
of men absent from the country — the directors had 
arianged to give these men a certain amount of time 
because being absent it was just possible that the 
notices had not reached them. With regard to tho 
arrangement made by Mr. Grinlinton that interest 
at 9 per cent should be paid up lo 1st October 
1890, the directors had arranged that the interest 
should be paid at once, and would be paid forth- 
with. Iu answer to a question he said the only 
difference i t thename cf the new Company compared 
with the o.d was that the word “American” was 
left out. 
It was then unanimously agreed on the motion 
of Mr. Creasy seconded by Mr. Julius: — “ That the 
Ceylon Planters’ Americun Tea Co. Ld. be wound 
up voluntarily.” 
Mr. Thompson moved and Mr. Whitham seconded : 
— “ Thai Mtssrs. J. J. Grinlinton and James E. 
Headrick be appointed liquidators of tho Company, 
and that tluir remuneration be at E500 each.” 
Mr. Kelly pointed out that tho offices of the 
Managing Dir ctor Bnl Agents and Secretaries would 
cease as soon as tho Company teased to exist, but a 
veiy largo amount of woik would remain to be done 
in the way if settling matters generally, and remu- 
neration to tlic gentlemen who did it was a matter of 
course. They could not expect them to undertake the 
woik of winding up the Company and all the trouble 
conneated therewith, without giving them remune- 
ration. 
