July  i,  1895.] 
THE  TR/)PICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
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PROFESSIONAL  “RECRUITEHS”  OF 
COOLTFS. 
Amongst  other  matters  which  engaged  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Indian  Tea  Association  at  tiieir  last 
meeting  was  the  question  of  the  registration  and 
licensing  of  professional  recruiters.  The  necessity 
for  this  step  has  been  strongly  urged  by  Mr.  T. 
Buckingham,  Chairman  of  the  Assam  branch  of  the 
Association,  but  the  matter  is  to  be  allowed  to  stand 
over,  pending  the  result  of  the  protest  that  has  been 
made  by  the  Committee  against  the  introduction  of 
the  revised  draft  rules  in  their  present  form. — Pioneer. 
PLANTING  AND  PRODUCE. 
(//.  and  <J.  JIail,  May  10.) 
The  Budget. — The  free  breakfast  table  idea  does 
not  make  much  headway.  The  usual  expectations 
formed  about  the  tea  duty  at  this  time  of  year  were 
indulged  in,  but  nothing  came  of  them.  It  is  true 
the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  laid  great  stress 
on  the  consumption  of  tea,  and  gave  ligurcs  to  prove 
the  importance  of  the  demand  for  tea,  but  he  left 
the  tea  duty  where  it  was.  The  main  fact  about  the 
increased  consumption  of  tea  is  that  last  year  it  was 
£04,000  in  returns,  and  5,050,000  lb.  in  weight,  above 
the  previous  year.  And  no  less  than  86  per  cent,  of 
it  comes  from  our  own  dependencies  in  India  and 
Ceylon,  as  against  8 per  cent,  thirty  years  ago.  Coffee, 
on  the  other  hand,  is  decreasing,  and  one  reason  for 
the  smaller  consumption  is  no  doubt  the  utter  igno- 
rance on  the  part  of  the  ordinary  householder  as 
to  how  it  is  made.  Tea  is  comparatively  a simple 
affair,  but  simple  as  it  is  there  are  numbers  who  do 
not  know  how  it  should  be  made  ; and  as  for  coffee, 
it  is  exceptional  to  find  it  drink.iblc. 
Jav.v  Coffee. — The  cultivation  of  coffee  in  .Java 
is  vapidly  increasing.  Consul  Mai-lachlan  of  Bata- 
via, reports  that  the  satisfactory  results  from  the 
cultivation  of  the  Liberian  bean,  both  in  Mid  and 
West  .lava,  become  year  by  year  more  apparent  as 
the  principal  difficulties  attending  the  preparation 
of  this  coffee  for  the  market  arc  gradually  being 
successfully  surmounted.  As  a result,  a marked 
improvement  in  the  ajipe.irance  and  quality  of  the 
coffee  is  noted,  and  its  favour  is  becoming  more 
and  more  assured.  The  continued  recurrence  of 
the  so-called  “ leaf " uiseaso  in  the  .lava  coffee 
on  low-lying  lands,  from  which  the  Liberian  still 
preserves  comparative — though  by  no  means  entire 
— immunity,  causes  more  confidence  to  be  felt  in 
the  latter,  and  many  hands  which  have  suffered 
most  severely  from  the  ravages  of  this  disease  in 
the  Arabian  plant  are  being  replanted  with  Liberian. 
It  has  been  decided  to  give  up  the  Government 
cultivation  of  coffee  in  the  Krawang  Residency,  and 
on  .Tanuary  1st,  181)5,  the  law  reudoring  the  deli- 
very in  that  district  to  Government  obligatory  was 
repealed. 
NORTH  BORNEO. 
Mr.  Lcicer.tor  P.  Beaufort,  m.a.,  n.c.n.,  Barrister-at  ■ 
Law,  has  been  appointed  Governor  of  British  North 
Borneo,  in  succession  to  Mr.  Charles  Vandelcur 
Creagli,  o.M.r;.,  whose  term  of  office  will  shortly  expire. 
The  newly-  ippninted  Governor  will  be  welcomed  as 
an  old  friend  and  the  appointment  of  one  we  all 
k;iov\  will  not  be  Ihe  !c:-s  appieciated  when  it  por- 
tends the  benefit  of  having  a successor  to  Governor 
Creagh  who  has  had  the  adv.uitage  of  working  under 
him  and  who  will  theroliy  be  enabled  to  continue  a 
[lolisy  whicii  Inrs  hi  ought  the  oouiitr}'  to  its  present 
position  tlnough  tim.s  of  g.eat  depression. 
Tiiii'ty-two  .I.ipine-e.  and  lifty-eight  ChiiK'se  Agri- 
culturists arrived  by  tiie  sa.  “ Memnon."  paying  tlieir 
own  passages.  Some  of  those  now  settlers  brought  their 
wives,  the  party  including  5 .Japanese  and  11  Chinese 
women  and  nine  thihlvcn  Settlers  of  those  nation- 
alities are  now  arriving  in  small  minibcrs  by  every 
steamer  from  Ilongkou;;. 
Mr.  Sankara  N-uavana  Pilhiy  is  arranging  to  bi'ing 
Tamil  settlers  from  Negapatuin  to  this  country,  and 
Mr.  Eamasamy  -formerly  of  the  Government  Secre- 
tary’s Office  is  reported'  to  have  left  Madras  with  ffO 
Tamils  for  whom  the  land  has  been  selected  in  lb 
Dent  nea.r  Mompakul.  A second  batch  is  expected 
shortly  to  open  a settlement  near  Kudut.  It  is  satis- 
factory to  learn  that  the  protracted  co'-respondeuce 
with  the  Indian  Government  wliich  commenced  in 
1880  is  at  last  likely  to  lead  to  some  practical  result 
— //.  and  C.  Mail. 
COFFEE  PLANTING  AT  SEL.VNGOR. 
A draft  prospectus  of  the  Friendship  Kstate.s 
Company  Sungei  Ujong,  Selangor,  sliows  a Caiii- 
tal  of  £.5,0U0  divided  info  oDO  .shares  of  £10  cadi. 
T!ie  Company  will  take  up  some  1,000  acre's  of 
land — the  larger  jiortion  of  wliich  is  not  far 
from  the  Knala  Sawali  Station,  on  the  Snm-'ei 
Ujong  line— for  jilanting  coffee.  It  is  proposed  ''to 
at  once  open  np  800  acres,  and  200  more  will  he 
ojiened  np  gradually.  Tables  sliowing  estimated 
expenditure,  receipts,  prolits,  etc.,  liave  been 
drawn  np,  and  “ calenlations  are  based  on  the 
sale  of  coffee  at  pO  pei'iiiknl,  wliereas  tlie  present 
price  i.s  -Sl.j  to  §47  ; should  tliis  price  he  main- 
t.ained,  prolits  will  he  nearly  ,50  per  cent,  greater 
than  shewn.” 
An  Unpho.sperou.s  Tramway.- I he  following 
will  he  of  interest  to  town.s  in  tlie  east  which 
are  contemplating  the  eou.struction  or  extension 
of  tramway.s.  ^ Here  is  what  the  Sinriaporc  Free 
Pres."}  s.ays  : — Tlmre  is  con.siderahle  danger  tliat 
tlie  Rangoon  Steam  Tramways  will  collapse  un- 
less immediate  attention  is  paid  to  the  linancial 
liosition  of  the  Coni]iany.  Out  of  1115,4.52 earned 
past  Inalf  yeai  Ll,),0)i0  had  to  lie  p,aid  to  debenture 
holders. 
Letters  1 atent  liavo  been  passed  appointing 
'Mr.  _A.  J.  Le.ach  to  lie  a ihiisne  .Iiulge  of  tlie 
Straits  Sottlement.s. 
“TiiR  Nuwara  Emva  ITCK-ME-ur.’ — A faceti- 
ous and  Epicurean  eorrespondent  of  the  Slrujapore. 
Free  Freis  writes The  late.st  thing  i'n  the 
rvay  of  pick-me-ups  in  Nuw.ara  Eliya,  the  land 
of  sndi  potent  spells,  is  termed  'tlie  ‘Cherry 
Blossom.’  It  consists  of  a Iialf  soila,  a wliol'e 
brandy,  one  clierry  lirandy,  and  a Benedictine 
whisked  iqi^  with  a brnsli  in  cocktail  fashion.  It 
is  good,  tnongh  a trifle  .sweet  for  a niorniii"- 
pick-me-ii]).  A liotter  one  is  .a  ‘hahy’  dry 
Monopole  noured  into  a gla.ss  round  which  'a 
red  chilly  has  been  riilihed  until  the  gl.ass  is 
nicely  colonreil.  It  should  be  taken  (ffl  with 
the  liead  on  it.  Nothing  ennals  it ; hut  in  tliese 
days  of  depreciated  dollars  even  ‘liahy’ 
iVIonojioles  are  a trille  o.xpensive.” 
The  Mieit.vrv  Unifoi!m.sOri)in.\nce. — Regard- 
ing tlie  Milit.ary  rnifornis  Ordinance  applicable 
to  C!eyloii  the  Hinr^npore  Free  Fre.';.^  s.ay.s  : “ \ 
similar  ordin.ance  will,  it  is  believed,  ho  in  diie 
time  introduced  here  in  consonance  wiHi  le<>is. 
l.ition  alre.ady  pa,s.sed  in  the  Imperial  Iffirliammit, 
Slime  local  employers  of  .syces  got  up  in  qiiasi- 
niilitary  style  will  Iiave  to  revise  their  liveries 
w.wMi  tln.s  l)i!I  comes  to  lie  enforced  Iicro.  ’ 
* **^7  ^LHT.'sir  Dor.L.VR. — Specimens  of  the 
new  British  d illar  will  jirohahly  he  issued  from 
tlie  mint  rihout  tlie  end  of  the  onri'cnt 
mmith.  It  is  stated  in  Hongkong  that  on  every 
thousand  new  British  dollars  that  the  local  B.ank's 
will  i;ii])orc  and  |iay  out  they  will  lose  (i I cents. 
I 111'  new  coin,  it  is  urged,  slionid  not  he  ner- 
mitted  to  he  cliopp.ed.”  as  is  the  enstom  among 
Lliines  ; shops  in  Hongkong,  for  it  would  he  to  the 
interestof  tr.adc  hetwoon  Hongkong  and  tlie  .S’raijs 
S tL.ae.io.  to  ii.a.e  in,.iivh,angcah!e  i.'nric!H'\-, 
whicli  would  not  he  the  case  if  doll.ars  he  “ehoiipcil” 
as  it  would  then  not  be  legal  tender  here 
Pinanej  Gazette. 
