THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July i, iSgii 
20 
the epurioufi oubebs that 150 bags of thmi were 
imported into Amsterdam lust year, aud were sold 
at 39, per lb., this beiug the limit fixed by the 
growers in Java. It is from the iiost Coast of Java 
that they are imported. — Oil, I’aint and Drug llegorUr. 
to numerous applications for the above blooka of 
land, it has been decided to put them up to 
auction at our sale room. No. 4, Queen's Street, 
Port, Colombo, at 3 p. m. on the 18th of May 
1891.” The property belongs to the estate of the 
late Mr. C. H. Do Soysa. 
IMl’OUTANT SALE OP FOREST LaND. 
Today (May I8tb) an important sale of virgin forest 
and took plaee in the premises of Messrs. Uoo. 
Armitagn dt Co, regarding which the following letter 
will be read with interest : — 
Office of tbo Colonial Secretary, 
Colombo, May 18th, 1801, 
To Messrs. Gao. Armitage & Co. 
Oeutlemeu, — With reference to my telegram of the 
29th ultima, in which I de.sired to know, on behalf of 
tbo Government, the lowest price at which the forest 
land in Udapussollawa belonging to the estate of tbo 
lato Mr. O. 11. do Soysa would bo solil, and to your 
reply that tho ownors insisted on tho land being dis- 
posed of at auetion, 1 am desired to inlorm you that 
tho Government, after duo eomtideration, has coocurred 
with you in Ihinkiog that tho course proposed by you 
is the fairostwayot asoottaining tho true market value 
of thelaod, and of securing that value lor the estate in 
question. 
8. Tho Goverument has been urged to acquire the 
loud for public purposes, aud some intending purchasers 
have otferod to abstain from bidding if tbo Govern- 
ment would announce its intention of acquiring the 
laud. 
The Government has therefore determined not to 
announce its iuteution, or to interfere with the sale 
till the auotiou is over. 
3. The Government has however determined ou the 
acquisition of the laud for public purposes, and a 
formal notice tu that effect will duty appear iu tho 
Ooaemment OuMtu. 
4. 1 shall be obliged by your causing Ibis decision 
to bo nnuouDced by reading this Totter at the 
conclusion of the public sale, iu order that the 
highest bidders wlio will rueeivu ten per centum ou 
their rospcctivo bids may not bj i>ut to any further 
inounveiiiinco or expense. 
I shall he further obliged bp your iuruishing mu 
with tho names of tho highest bidders tor each lot, 
ill order that I may place luyselC in diriot communi- 
cation with them — 1 am, Gentlemen, your uhedicut 
servant, It. W. GaniiN, Asst. Colonial Secretary. 
The following is the result of tho sale : — 
IiOt. Purchaser. Extunt Ptico Total. 
acres, per acre. 
(1) Hon. J. J.Griuliuton 182 0 0 Jtl64-32 R2.'),000 
(2) Hon. J. J.Grinhntou 149 3 0 RI53 33 1123,000 
(3) T. U. Oampbell 142 0 0 IIISIGO l{21,5tiO 
(4) K. Msoaudtew 209 0 0 K150 71 1131,500 
Total .... (182 3 0 ItlaJ 11101,009 
It was at the oloso of tho sale an- 
nounced the Goveinraent would take up the lots 
for public purposes ; and regarding this a man of 
fausiuess expresses tbo opinion — ” 1 think tho Go- 
vernment have done quite right and that the best 
way of arriving at the value was a xmb.ie auction. 
Government will not be ungonerous to tho purchaser. 
This they have clearly hidioated. Had Oi/vernment 
said they were going to purchase I don't think 
they would have obtained the lots for loss than 
B200 per acre." 
The following is the advortised description of the 
property ; — " C02 acres fine virgin forest in Udupussel- 
lawa bounded by St. Leonards, Ragalia, Goatfell, 
Heathecselt, Danmark Hill, Gracelyn and Coneygar 
estates. 'These blocks of laud aajoiu each other 
and are said to eou'ain very fine timber trees. 
The land itself is very Euitabla for the cultivation 
of tea, and owing to the climate, elevation and 
exieusivo views obtained from the properties they 
would make excellent residential estates. Owing 
PLANTING IN PER AJi. 
The Government of Perak, being desirous of ooconra- 
ging agriculture in the tstate, draws attention by cir- 
culsr to the existence of large arcse of virgin land 
available for both hill and low coniitry cultivation, and 
5° following, among other, advantages which the 
btate hnlda out to intending planters. 
(«.) Proximity to Singapore and Penang — twodtys’ 
sleam Irom the former anil six boors from the latter. 
(h.) The country is traversed bv good molalled cart- 
roads. 
(c-) Taipiug, the capital, is connected with its port, 
at Port Weld, by a short railway. A railway oonneot- 
ing tho Piirt of Teluk Anson with tho iulaud distriots of 
Dating Padang aud iCiuta is under ooustruotiou. 
(<f.) Arrangements have been iu force lor seven years 
with the Government of India, admitting of the intro- 
duction of iiideutnred Indian labour. 
(c.) Arabian coffre has given satisfactory results on 
an estate oi shout 1,000 acres, opened by .Sir Graeme 
Klpliiuetoue, iu the Kuala Kaugsa District, while Mr. 
Heslop Hilts Liberian oulloe estate of about 300 aores 
jn tho Hame dihtriot is promisiDg. 
MtK ** “ return ehowing remarkable crops 
ot Liberian oofteo on Messrs. Hill and Ralhhorne’s 
estates in neighbouring States of the Malay Peninsula. 
(y.; Tea grown by Government as an experiment, 
ami shipped to E iglaud, has been favourably reported 
on by London brokers. 
(h.) The Government of tho Stale is carried on 
under the adyioe of a Driiisb Uesidout, with a staff of 
Kuropnau Officers, ami auder tho superviaiuu of hia 
■ 1 ?^* ,4°^ tho Straits Settlements. 
The Government is prepared to grant tho followiog 
apcoial terms to the first ton approveii applications who 
shall apply after this date, that is to say: — Lease or 
leases in poipetuity for 1,000 acres iu one block or iu 
hluoks of not less than 600 acres each. No premium ; 
quit-reul 20 cents au acre after two years’ freooeenpa- 
tion. Tho Government reserves tho right ol levying 
an export duty on pruduoe, which may not oxcoeil 2^ 
percent ad valorem. If selected with road frontage 
tho depth to bo tbrue timee the frontage ; liona fide 
oomoncoraeut to open to bo made within 12 months 
from Government approval ot selcctioo ; cost of demar- 
cation and surviy (to be made when required by 
Qovetiimint) and registratiou fees to bo boruo by les- 
BOHH. If desired by applications, a premium of S3 an 
acre and no quit-rent will bo ncoeptod. 
Minerals are loserved, and, with the above excep- 
tions, the laud would bu snhjeot to the general land 
regnlatious of the State, which will be forwarded on 
application to tho State Uommiseioncr ot Lands, 
Tnipiiig, to whom all oommnuioatioua in couueotioii 
with this Circular should be addressed.— *'trai(s Times. 
CEYLON TEA IN RUSSIA— MB. ROGIVUE'S 
M I SS I OxN— COCON UT B UTTER. 
London, May 1, 
During tho week the Secretary of tho Ocylon 
Asaooiatiun in London has received from Mr. Rogivue 
copy ol a letter juat addresBod by him to jou* 
Blau tors' AsBuoiation, Prom the date of that letter 
April 26th, it appears almost certain that it cannot 
reach Ceylon before this letter of mine should do 
and I shall not, therefore, be ” carrying coals to 
NowcaBile” by juat mentioning to you tho loading 
particulars of whot your CommiBsioner in Russia 
has written, although you will no doubt be supplied 
with the full text of his letter very shortly after 
its receipt. 
