THb;  TROPIC.AI 
A(}Ri(:i;r;ruRiST. 
vvhich  ihis  Company  is  estalilished  ara— To  acqnive 
^ estate  situated  in  the  Kelani  valley  district 
of  the  Island  of  Coylon,  and  to  I'ana,  manufacture,  or 
cultivate  tea,  and  or)  auy  other  products  or  trees, 
plants,  or  crops  which  may  hereafter  bo  approved 
and  either  on  the  ^aid  estate  or  elsewhere  within  or 
beyond  the  limits  of  Ceylon,  and  to  prepare,  manu- 
fac^ire,  treat,  or  make  marketable  the  produce  of  any 
such  farming  or  cultivation,  or  any  like  produce,  and  to 
sell,  ship,  and  dispose  of  such  produce,  either  raw  or 
manufactured,  at  such  times  and  places  and  in  such  man- 
ner as  shall  be  deemed  expedient.  The  capital  of  the 
K303,00U  divided  into  three  thousand  shares 
of  IxlOQeach,  with  power  to  increase  or  reduce  the  capi- 
tal. In  case  the  Company  shall  increase  its  capital  by 
the  issue  of  new  shares,  such  shares  may  be  issued 
upon  the  terms  specified  in  the  .\rticles  of  Associa- 
tion for  the  time  being  of  the  Company.  A share 
has  been  taken  by  each  of  the  following  gentlemen: — 
Messrs.  Walter  Seale,  F.  Macindoe,  G.  J.  .Jameson. 
L.  1?.  Waldock,  W.  Sliakspeare,  V.  A.  Julius,  and  Edw. 
Eooth, 
DRUG  RERORT. 
(From  Chcini'it  nnd  Drmjgi'it.) 
hnniloii,  May  Ki. 
.Annatto— Bright  seed  is  in  good  demand  at  fuli 
prices,  20  bags  from  Britisli  India  being  all  sold  at  from 
4d  to  Gd  for  good  red. 
Caffkimj  -We  hear  of  very  little  business  this  week. 
A few  pounds  might  probably  be  had  at  27s  per  lb 
on  the  spot,  and  for  delivery  the  mirket  shows, 
perhaps,  a slight  toueli  of  an  easier  tendenev.  In  New 
York,  according  to  reports  dated  April  27tfi,  5-lb . lots 
have  been  sold  at  si  50  per  lb  and  “extreme  scarcitv” 
Jirevails.  , 
Cl.NilloNA— The  principal  parcel  at  todav's  sales  was 
one  of  4.i  serous  “Crown"  bark  from  Callao,  which  sold 
cheaply  us  follows  : — 3,i  bales  fair  sound  ilu.anoco  (piill, 
at  Cpl  to  7, 'll  ; and  8 serous  l.oxa,  fair  but  partlv  mixed 
at  lid  per  lb. 
Coca— Of  a 21-bale  parcel  rather  broken  but  dry 
Truxillo  leaves,  only  two  bales  sold  (damsiged)  at  7,'d  tii 
91d  per  lb ; for  sound  leaves  lOd  is  asked,'  a bid  of  8ld 
being  refused. 
Cocai.se— The  fresh  decline  in  the  price  of  Ilydro- 
ehlorate  of  coc.uie,  whicli  we  foreshadowed  last  week, 
his  taken  place,  a Od  reduction  being  announced  on  Mon- 
day. The  wholesale  rates  for  cocaine  in  tins  are  hots 
of  100  o/,  and  over,  17s  Gd  ; lots  of  from  2.5  to  100  oz,  17s 
9d  ; lots  of  under  2.5  oz,  18s  per  oz.  Bottles  are  charged 
3d  per  oz  extra. 
E.s.sentiag  Ou.s— At  today’s  auctions  the  usual  assort 
ment  of  essential  oils  was  offered,  but  hardly  anything 
was  .sold  e.xcept  two  cases  so-called  (finnamon  oil,  'which 
realised  7 Id  per  oz.  Thirteen  cases  yellow  camphor  oil 
were  bought  in  at  30s  per  cwt.  Tlie  other  parcels  offered 
do  not  c.ill  for  any  remark. 
QL'INIXK— Dearer  ; on  Wednesday  10,0)0  oz  H B or  B & .S 
bulk  were  reported  sold  at  12',d  on  the  spot,  and  today 
ll'.il  per  oz  was  paid  for  12,000  oz  more.  There  are  now 
only  a few  sellers  at  the  last-niined  price.  .At  auction 
5,000  oz  were  offered  and  bought  in  at  12)d. 
V.ANii.r.A— Kather  dearer,  at  from  15s  Gd  to  25s  forg.iod 
to  tine  bold. 
INDIAN  lUVTENT.S. 
C^alcutta,  .May  22. 
Specifications  of  the  undermentioned  invetitioiii 
hive  Ijiioii  tiled  under  the  pr.o visions  of  A •f,  V of  l.s.ss  : — 
Foi’  the  treatmant  of  Textile  V'^eget  il)lo  Filjnis. — 
•‘l‘>  of  111. — Alfi'e  1 Frineis  Hilderljeok  Gomess.  of ‘2 1, 
Alfred  Place,  We.st,  South  Kensington,  in  tlio  County 
of  London,  England,  Chemist,  for  a now  an  I ini- 
jjroved  process  for  the  treatment  of  textile  vcgetaljle 
fibres.  (Filed  12th  Jleeem'ter  I.SDI.) 
For  making  Glazed  Black  Tea.— oil  of  I A. 
S.  Lethbridge,  Indian  Medical  Service,  No.  1,  Kyd 
Street,  Calcutta,  for  m-iking  glazetl  black  to  i whereby 
a waste  product  in  the  ordinary  process  of  tea  mak- 
is  utilized,  and  a tea  is  produced  which  has  a much 
high  ■'I-  commercial  value  than  the  tea  prodnco.l  by 
till)  ordinary  methods  of  mannfaetnrc  now  in  use. 
(Filed  IHtli April  18!1T).) — [.and  E.  Emjineer. 
July  i,  1895. 
THE  (’EVLO.V  TEA  ROLLER  GA8E. 
LAW  REI'ORT  MAV  18TIL 
JCIJfCIAI.  (MMMt  ri  KK  or  Till-:  IMtlVV  COC.VCIL. 
{L‘reneiit  ■. — Loiiu  \V.vrao.N,  Loud  Hobhouse,  Loud 
Macnaghtex,  and  SiK  Richard  Codch.) 
BKOW.V  AXD  THE  COLOMBO  COM.MEUCIAL  COMBAXY 
LI.MITED  V.  J.ACK30X. 
This  was  an  appeal  from  a decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Ceylon  of  March  21,1804,  affirming  a judgment 
of  that  Court  of  September  l.S,  1892. 
Mr.  Moulton,  q.c.,  Mr.  Bousfield,  q.  c.,  and  Mr. 
J.  C.  Graham  appeared  for  the  appellants  ; Sir  Richard 
Webster,  ij.  c.,  Mr.  Finlay,  q.  c.,  and  Mr.  W.  N. 
Lawson  for  the  respondent. 
The  case  was  recently  argued  before  a Committee 
consisting  of  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Watson, Lord 
Hobhouse,  Lord  Macnaghten,  Lord  Morris,  and  Sir 
Richard  Crouch,  when  they  reserved  judgment. 
Lokd  Watsox,  in  now  delivering  the  opinion  of  their 
Ijordships,  said,— The  respondent,  William  .Tackson,  a 
mechanicalengineer  at  A.berdeen,  obtained  letters  patent 
for  Ceylon,  granting  him  the  exclusive  privilege  of 
using  an  invention  relating  to  “ machinerv  or  appara- 
tus to  be  employed  in  imparting  the  necessary  curl  to 
tea  leaf  by  means  of  flat  or  hollow-fluted  surfaces" 
for  l-l  years  fiom  July  4th,  1881.  The  present  action 
was  brought  l)y  the  respondent  in  the  District  Court 
of  Colombo  against  the  appellants,  one  of  ivhom  is  a 
company  registered  in  England  and  carrying  on  busi- 
ness as  estate  agents  and  engineers  in  Colombo,  and 
the  other  a merchant  in  Colombo,  who  act  as  assis- 
tant manager  of  the  company.  In  this  plaint  the 
respondent  charged  both  appellants  with  infringement 
of  his  patent  by  importing  into,  selling,  and  using 
in  Ceylon  machinery  and  apparatus  for  rolling  tea 
e.ive.s,  haling  substantially  the  same  arrangements 
with  those  described  in  his  specification ; and  he 
craved  an  injunction  and  an  account  of  profits.  The 
main  and  the  only  defence  stated  which  it  was  neces- 
sary to  notice  consisted  in  a denial  of  infringement 
The  learned  judge  of  the  District  Court  found  that 
tlie  patent  ha:l  not  been  infringed,  and  dismissed 
the  action.  His  decision  was  reversed,  on  appeal 
by  the  late  Chief  Justice  Burnside  and  Mr,  Justice 
Lawrie,  who  remitted  the  case  in  order  that  aJ 
injunction  might  be  granted  and  an  account  of 
profits  taken.  In  pursuance  of  the  remit  the  District 
•Judge  issued  an  injunction,  and  also  decerned  against 
the  appellants  for  RT1,8G1,  at  whicli  sum  he  assessed 
the  profits  derived  by  them  from  infLiiigeiiieut.  On 
appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court  that  judgment  was 
affirmed,  and,  thereafter,  the  appidhints  brought  the 
previous  judgment  of  the  Appeal  Court  before  that 
tribunal  by  way  of  review,  when  it  was  affirmed  by  a 
majority, consisting  of  Lawrie  and  Witliers  J.J.,  Jlonser 
C.J.  dissenting.  In  considering  the  question  raised  by 
the  appc.il,  there  were  three  different  apjiavatus  for  tea- 
rolling to  \vhich  it  was  necessary  to  refer.  The  first 
was  the  Standard  machine  which  Iiad  been  used 
in  the  Island  of  Ceylon,  without  its  having  been 
patented,  for  some  time  before  the  date  of  the 
respondent’s  invention  ; tlie  .second  was  his  patent 
machine  known  as  the  “Excelsior";  and  the  third, 
the  appellants  oflending  machine,  which  wont  by  tlie 
name  of  the  “ Rapid. " All  tlio.se  machines  had' pre- 
cisely the  same  object— to  prcjiare  (lie  Icives  of  tlie 
tea  plant  for  sale  l)V  imparting  to  tliein  a em  l whi,  h 
before  the  introduction  of  in  lehinerv.  w.rs  eff-'leil  liy 
nibbing  thcleivos  hotweon  th  ; pa'hin  of  th  • liuniiii 
hand.  Th  ■ nij.'.h.inisin  of  all  t iree  mi  I’limu  c.msiste.l 
of  practically  th  ) s ime  ji  irts.  ’i’ii -y  might  he  slio- tiv 
de.scriboJ  as— (Ij  two  piano  snrfa.ies  (o  la  or  iioth  of 
wliich  might  he  eorriigatod  hotwecii  which  the  le.ivas 
were  rnh'iod,  tacimie.illy  K:i  >w.i  as  th  i up  ler  mi  l 
lower  rolling  tihUn;  (2i  a c isa  or  cover,  in  connexion 
with  the  upper  table,  whoso  fiin-tion  it  was  to  con- 
fine the  ki.ives  wliilo  they  wore  oper.ited  on-  (3) 
arrangements  by  which  the  leivas  could  ha  fed ’into 
the  sp.ice  hotwoen  the  two  tables  and  were  disch  irged 
after  they  had  hoen  rolled;  and  (4)  a I’ovolving  sKift 
to  which  the  two  tables  wore  so  geared  or  connocte  1 
th  it,  when  the  machine  was  at  work,  they  moved  in 
opposite  directions,  the  one  above  the  other,  and 
