THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
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Nov.  2,  1896.] 
factories,  ware  houses,  electric  works,  &c.;  to  turn 
to  account  the  lands,  estates,  properties,  cSrc.,  of 
the  company  by  clearing,  draining,  irrigating,  fencing, 
planting,  and  building  thereon;  as  farmers  and  graziers, 
stock-raisers,  Ac.  to  lay  out  towns  and  villages, 
and  to  promote  mmigration  thereto ; to  acquire 
and  turn  to  ccount  any  patents,  Ac.  The 
signatories  are:— 
Shares. 
W.  Austin,  Sunnyside,  South  Norwood-part  S.E.  1 
G.  D.  Jennings,  28,  Gracechurch-street,  E.C.  . . 1 
O.  Magniac,  Hays  Wharf,  Southwark  . . 1 
J.  H.  Thring,  J.P.,  Alford,  Castle  Carey  . . 1 
J.  L.  Shand,  24,  Rood-lane,  E.C.  . . 1 
T.  Horne,  141,  Endlesham-road,  Balham  . . 1 
W.  Baker,  33,  Billington-road,  New-cross  . . 1 
OUVAH  COFFEE  COMPANY,  LIMITED 
Registered  August  7,  by  Hollams,  Sons,  Coward 
and  Hawkesley,  Mincing-lane,  E.C.,  with  a capital  of 
d£100,000  in  .£10  shares.  Object,  to  adopt  and  carry 
into  effect  an  agreement  expressed  to  be  made  be- 
tween the  Ouvah  Coffee  Company,  Limited,  to  the 
one  part  and  this  company  of  the  other  part,  for  the 
acquisition  by  purchase  or  otherwise,  as  a going  con- 
cern, of  the  business  and  undertaking  of  the  said 
company  (henceforth  to  be  known  as  the  old  com- 
pany, incorporated  1864),  and,  generally,  to  lend 
money  to  such  persons  or  companies,  and  on  such 
terms  as  may  be  deemed  expedient,  and  in  par- 
ticular to  planters,  merchants,  manufacturers,  and 
landowners  ; to  develop  the  resources  of  such  lands 
estates,  Ac.,  as  may  from  time  to  time  be  acquired 
by  the  company  by  clearing,  draining,  planting, 
and  irrigating  the  same,  and  by  building  thereon  ; to 
lay  our  towns  and  villages  ; as  farmers,  graziers,  and 
stock-raisers,  shipowners,  timber  merchants  ; to  con- 
struct and  maintain  rail  and  tram  roads,  docks, 
Eiers  wharves,  warehouses,  Ac.  ; and  the  general 
usiness  of  a mining,  milling,  smelting,  and  metallur- 
gical company.  The  signatories  are  : — 
Shares. 
A.  R.  Brown,  5,  Dowgate-hill,  E.C.  . . 1 
N.  Stewart,  Burgess-hill,  Sussex  . . 1 
L.  Famin,  57,  Eastcheap,  E.C.  ..  1 
J.  G.  Wardropp,  2,  Challoner-street,  West 
Kensington  . . 1 
P.  Oswald,  130,  Fenchurch-street,  E.C.  . . 1 
J.  Roberts,  5,  Dowgate-hill,  E.C.  ..  1 
H.  J.  King,  5,  Dowgate-hill,  E.C.  ..  1 
— II.  and  O.  Mail,  Sept.  4. 
PLANTING  AND  PRODUCE. 
Tea  in  Norway. — If  we  may  judge  by  the  com- 
plaints made  by  British  tourists  in  Norway  and 
Sweden,  there  is  room  for  the  development  of  the 
tea  trade  in  those  countries.  Indian  and  Ceylon  tea 
are  not  to  be  met  with  in  the  ordinary  way,  and 
the  art  of  brewing  tea  is  sadly  neglected.  Coffee 
is  in  favour  much  more  than  tea. 
Brazil  as  a Tea  Growing  Country. — Some  Brazilian 
planters,  we  learn,  are  very  much  impressed  with  the 
idea  that  tea  could  be  successfully  and  profitably 
grown  in  Brazil,  and  experiments  on  a somewhat 
extended  scale  have  been  talked  of.  The  idea  is  not 
anew  one.  Some  British  capitalists  had  the  sugges- 
tion under  consideration  not  very  long  ago,  and 
one  well  known  firm  of  enterprising  tea  agents  visited 
the  country  to  see  how  far  the  prospect  was  hope- 
ful. 'V'  e do  not  know  the  conclusion  arrived  at, 
but  we  should  imagine  that  there  were  difficulties 
in  the  way.  Allowing  that  the  conditions  of  soil 
and  labour  were  favourable  there  .would  be  the 
question  of  security  and  title,  matters  of  consider- 
able importance  where  British  capitalists  are  con- 
cerned. The  three  principal  coffee  producing  pro- 
vinces of  Brazil,  viz.,  Rio  de  Janeiro,  Minas  Geraes, 
and  Sao  Paula  are  in  about  the  same  latitude  as 
Central  Australia,  and  therefore  much  further  south 
than  Java. 
Planting  in  British  Central  Africa. — The  report 
of  Sir  Harry  Johnson  on  the  British  Central  African 
Protectorate  for  the  year  1895  is  very  satisfactory. 
One  of  the  most  interesting  parts  of  the  report  des- 
cribes  the  development  of  the  coffee  planting  in- 
austry,  which  is  carried  on  in  the  Shire  Province 
m Angouiland,  and  iu  the  Marimbo  district.  It  is 
to  the  coiTee  planting  that  the  Commissioner  of 
Nyassaland  ascribes  the  prosperous  change  that 
has  recently  bep  experienced  in  that  part  of  Africa, 
lea  has  been  introduced,  while  tobacco  is  a great 
success.  As  regards  the  labour  question,  the  ponu- 
lation  statistics,  which  Sir  Harry  Johnston  has 
been  at  some  pains  to  compile  are  of  great 
interest  an^d  value.  The  total  of  European  ponu- 
lation  IS  289,  of  which  nearly  half  is  in  Blen- 
tyre.  The  native  populaiion  is  estimated  at 
ajiout  850,000.  These  figures,  taken  with  the 
the  not  very  encouraging  statistics  as  to  the  health  of 
the  territory,  make  it  clear  that  the  European  hill 
settlements  must  always  remain  islands  in  the  ocean 
of  an  enormous  native  population  in  the  plains. 
We  must  encourage,”  says  the  report,  “ the  un- 
checked increase  of  the  negro  population,”  for  ulti- 
mately the  whole  future  of  Central  Africa  depends 
on  the  natives  themselves.  “Given  abundance  of 
native  labour,  and  the  financial  security  of  the  Pm- 
tectorate  is  established.”  And  again,  “ It  onlv 
needs  a sufficiency  of  native  labour  to  make  this 
country  relatively  healthy”  (that  is,  by  the  clear! 
ance  of  jungle  and  the  drainage  of  marshes)  “and 
aniazuigly  rich.”  Sir- Harry  .Johnston  sees  that  £ 
^ and  liberal  treatment  of  the 
natives.  Unskilled  native  labour  at  present  only  re- 
ceives some  3s  a month,  and  skilled  labour  only  very 
ocasionally  reaches  as  much  as  £40  a yar  / ve  y 
CooLY  Labour  in  British  CoLONiEs.-Mr.  Chamber- 
lain has  been  interesting  himself  about  coolie Kur 
on  the  sugar  estates  not  only  of  Natal  ”hnf 
in  the  West  Indies,  and  a deVtch  h£\Lu 
sent  to  the  various  governors  of  tViA 
concerned.  In  the  West  Indies  very  sWnT®! 
laws  protect  the  coolie  labourers,  but  he  miff^rs  con‘ 
siderably  from  the  tyranny  of  the  “babajees,”  X 
tieat  low  caste  men  with  a very  high  hand  ° 
them  tael,.  Coolie,  taq JotlfoeoTJ™  1 
money,  and  are  to  be  met  with  amonerat  the  qhnriLa 
ele...  In  Brlti.h  there  he«®be,riStle7,''S 
coolies  amassing  wealth  and  owning  racehorse^  hn f 
while  labour  as  in  demand  in  India  it  seems  strange 
that  so  many  coolies  are  found  willing  to  go  ^ coInm£ 
where  they  are  treated  as  inferiors  by  negroes  and  h ’ 
at  any  rate  until  they  are  used  to  tL  forCto  p U 
up  with  yery  much  that  is  repugnant  to  their  feelings 
In  the  early  sixties  a large  proportion  of  the  coofie' 
labom-erson  the  sugar  plantations  in  British  oSa 
were  mutineers  from  India,  who  had  left  their  county 
for  their  country  a good  as  well  as  their  own.  Kv 
were  a rough  lot,  and  occasionally  made  things  lively 
foi  the  planters.  Owing,  however,  to  the  large  mo 
portion  of  negroes  m the  colony  no  very  ferfonn 
mischief  occurred.-//  & C Mail  Sept.  4th.  ^ 
INDIA  AND  CEYLON  TEAS  IN  AMERICA. 
New  York,  Aug.  19. 
The  market  for  the  past  week  has  shown  a better 
feeling  than  for  some  time  and  more  sales  are  re 
ported ; some  arrivals  of  new  season  Indias  show 
good  liquor  with  fine  appearance  of  leaf  and  have  in^^ 
with  ready  sale  at  full  rates.  Ceylons,  medium  n^fd 
lower  grades,  are  plentiful  and  sell  at  easier  prices^ 
while  good  liquoring,  well  made,  tippy  teas  are  some 
what  scarce  and  wanted.  Cable  advi^s  from  afcroad’ 
report  that  the  stock  of  India  teas  is  lower  in 
by  2.000,000  lb.  than  at  the  same  date  la.st  year  S 
shipments  from  Calcutta  last  mouth  were  SiVin  noo 
lb.  behiud  th»t  of  1895,  which  m italM,° 
to  boom  prices  of  India  teas,  were  it  not  that  the 
spot  stock  of  Ceylons  m Loudon  ig  geveml 
millions  in  exco.,s  of  that  of  a year  ago-  hi 
judging  from  all  information  obtainable’  fhA 
buyer  who  carefully  looks  at  his  stock  and  replenishes 
before  a very  long  time,  will  probably  fine/  that  he 
has  not  lost  anythmg. 
