November 2, 1891.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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tondenoe; aud what money and braina could do, 
braina and money have dona. Imagine first of all 
half of the river being bodily built up into a 
Watercourae (560 ft long and protected throughout 
■ta length by a rubble bank. All this for a turbine 
which doTolops iJO horee-powcr from a fall of 8 ft., — 
the lowest fall in Ooylon, I believe. The building 
■taelt is, I should say, 150 ft. by 60 ft., with side 
Pillara of stone, and central uprights of iron, and 
;a asphalted throughout. It has throe loft->, and 
'a fitted up with an enormous engine, two Excelsiors, 
Wo Brown’.s rollers, two Victorias, ono Davidson’s 
own-draft Sirocco, roll and tea-sifters, aud four 
^laokman’sfans. Asimplooaloulation from the driers 
hows that this factory can easily turn out 1,600,000 
•, of tea annually. On asking Mr. Jackson bis 
Pinion, he said ho liked Davidson’s down-draft 
•irooo as well ns any ho had had to do with. But 
then he had never seen ihe Britannia ! I must 
btsetve further details for another letter. 
MACin.NMUY ON THE AOUA BATA- 
TAS; IIEMINISOENCES OF TllElK 
I’KISTINE SYLVAN BEAUTY. 
The same correspondent who described tho 
of Carlabeok and tho working of Ih® 
uritannia Drying Machine now tells us of a simiiat 
triumph of engineering skiU at Hautevifle, on “ the 
“gras." The river which rises on the eide of 
tho majestic Kirigalpotta and is with its Iributaries 
finally lost in the ocean near Trinnomalec, is cora- 
Pblled, at Haulevillo, to turn a turbine; and the power 
thus obtainod is u-od to work a formidable array of 
rollers and down-draught siroocos and Victoria ilriirs 
film sifters and cutters. “Alloa wheels! All on 
Wheels 1 ’’ as the Turk in Eothen exclaimed. But what 
Oontraet since the time (aud it does not seem 
very long ago) when, in company with poor L. St, 
eorge Carey and our good friend A. H. Thomas, 
th° ^LP't'fetl and gave way to poetio raptures over 
fie then virgin beauty of the gem-like patanas, iu 
Betting of unbroken “forest primeval’ the stream, 
^ith its mirror-Uko pools, whore tho waters seemed 
a 1 . " tfiric own far oft murmurs listening,” 
horning both forest aud grass laud as with 
raoeries of now frosted and now polished silver. 
Here." said poor Carey, then in the prime of his 
aergiea and the flush of his sauguiue sohemes, 
Hera” [where Ilautovillo now shows its oultivat. d 
ehis and its factory resounding with tha whirr of 
hohiiioryl, ‘‘here 1 will have my bungalow, and 
,1 fib®-” pointing to a long, glassy reach of tha 
iver, “ thero 1 will have my boat. 'These lots 
in*?”*’* have." We were then meditating “going 
fi for an Agra lot ; but in view of our companion’s 
fithusiustio utterances wo felt, as turned out to bo 
jfifi ease, that success was hopeless. The Agra 
“w, of soma of the finest of which, distinguished 
“tindesoribable sylvan beauty, Mr. Oarey became tha 
Pfoprietor, went at prices beyond our modest moms, 
“fio of Mr. Carey's lots was named St. Oeorge 
fid another Ilautcville ; and as cultivated estates 
fih the scones of bu-y human labour as well as 
labour-saving machinery of the highest order, 
jf'y have a boauty and interest of their own. 
fit to life’s latoet hour we are not likely to forget 
th° /mwe on and from tho emerald patauas, era 
feM , a thousand generation had been 
j ami while their shade provided the mouu- 
*fi stream with oouditiona for a game at hide- 
^ fi'seek on which tho arohaio mountains looked 
oalr” sfi'emn oomplaoency. But while rc- 
“mng reminipoenoes of the natural beauty of 
the Agras and tho life and action and hopes 
now centred on them in oonneotion, with 
the great tea enterprise, let us not forget the 
coffee episode which came between ; an episode 
ending in too many cases in broken fortunes and bro- 
ken hearts. Such vicissitudes are common to human 
pursuits, hut not so common the brave perseverance 
with which the majority of tho planters turned to 
tho retrieval of their fortunes with the now staple 
tea. Long may it flourish, and may all oon- 
neoted with it have reason for thankfulness 
in continued prosperity 1 The tea planter can 
feel beyond doubt that in supplying the world 
with his product be is conferring high benefits 
on his fcllow-mon, a consolation denied to those 
who fill the world with alooholio beverages, fatal 
to a very considerable proportion of those who 
drink them and injurious to the bodies and souls 
of a further large proportion who are able to 
resist or postpone their fatal tendencies. The 
more they are superseJod by 
“The cups which oheor but not inebriate/' 
tho bettor for humanity. 
CEYLON TEA FUND. 
Minutes of prooeediogs of a mcctiDg of tho Standing 
Oomraittea of the Ocylon Tea Fund held within the 
Local Board Room, Nuwara Eliya, on Friday, the 9th 
day of October 1891, at half past -I o’clock, (1-30 p.m.) 
in the afternoou. Present : — Messrs Giles F. Walker 
(Chairman Planters’ Association of Oeylon), A. W. 
S Sackvil’e (Oliairman, Maskeliya Afsooiation), F. 0. 
Gubbiiis (UdapussellawB District), W. D. Gibbon (Kandy 
Committee), A. L. Cross (Kandy Committee), J. II. 
Staroy (Kandy Committee), and A. Philip (Kandy 
Committee, Secretary, Piantera’ Association of Ceylon). 
Tho notice calling the meeting was read. 
Tbe miautes of procoediiigs of a meeting of the 
Staoding Committee of the Ceylon Tea Fund held at 
Kandy on Friday, the 18th day of September 1891, were 
taken as rend and were confirmed. 
Resolved that Mr. Gubbins’s name be added to the 
Standing Committee of tho “ Tea Fund.” 
Read letter from Mr. Alexander Tait. Read letter from 
Messrs Walker, Sons, & Oo., Limited, enolosiug cbeuuo 
for R50 for the Tea Fund ” for current yo.vr, recog- 
nising the good work the Committee is doing and tho 
fact that all are interested iu increasing the consump- 
tion of Coyloii Tea. 
Road letter from Mr. Hugh B. Roberta.; Resolved : — 
" That it be pointed out to Mr. Roberta that the money 
expended upon Ihn Tea Kiosk and its fittings does not 
yet amount to 1115,900, aud that this sum will cover 
the total cost; that the building is being leased 
to both the Ceylon Tea Company, Limited, and 
the Syndicate Boat Company, Limited, with the 
sanetiou of Government, aud that the total rent 
amounts to between six per cent and seven per cent 
upon tile sum voted by tbo Committee, aud security 
has been taken that the basement of the building 
will not in any way be used to the detriment 
oithor of the Kicsk or those using it.” 
Road letter from Mr. Sholto G. D. Shrine, Chair- 
man, Dikoya Association. 
Ckvi-ON Tra at ibk Woui.d’s Exposition at 
Chicago in 1893. — Read letters from Hon. Mr. L. H. 
Kelly enclosing a oororauuication from His Exool- 
leuey tho Governor stating that the following gentle- 
men had been asked to form a Committee for tho 
Ceylon representation at tbo Chicago Exhibition .• — 
Mr. Saunders, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Grinlinton, Mr. Giles 
F. Walker, Mr. Henry Bois, Air. Haly, and Dr. 
Trimcn. 
Read letter from Hr. A. E. Wright. Resolved:— "That 
a speeial fund bo started to aegment tbe sum al> 
ready voted by tho Standing Committee of the Tea 
Fund for furthering tho interests of Ceylon Tea at 
the Chioago Exhibition, and that subscriptions bd 
generally invited for this purpose.” 
