Tebruary I, 1892 . 1 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST 
S4S 
Nwni Novqobod Fair. 
1891. 
Julj-Sept. — Rent of » Magazine .. 
Furnitaro and putting up 
Signboards 
Eleotno light 
Guilde (License) Police taxes &c. 
Advortiaemenl in Newspapers, Fly bills, 
Printing and distribution 
Mr. MilavidofT, assistant 
Interpreter. 5 times at Rbs. 10 
2 men for magazine, (2 mautbs their 
trips there and baoh, their messing 
and sundry chsrgM.,, 
A Watcher (artelobek) for two months... 
Running Agents, aud tea samples to 
sundries ... 
M. ll.’a 5 trips ihere and back, Hotel 
carriages &c. , . 
300 00 
65 «0 
86 00 
15 00 
72 00 
116 00 
250 00 
59 00 
275 00 
40 00 
160 00 
300 00 
1890-91 
Rbs.... 1,667 00 
J share for the Tea Fund, say Rbs.... 130 00 
Monky Received fe(jm Tea Fund. 
„ T 8 p. 
Received in Colombo from Mr. Philip... 33 6 8 
Received in London from Mr. Leake... 
Reoeived in St. Petersburg from Mr. 
Leake through Messrs. Maoolm, 
Kearton & Co. ... ... 
Mr. Leake’s payment to Messrs. Mal- 
colm, Kearton & Co, for Tea samples 
special grant of 
the Tea Fund ... 
ly obegue from Moscow account Zan- 
aer&Co.on Mr. Leake 
My cheque from St. Petersburg 
account Lm. Meyer & Oo. on Mr. 
Leakd 
Cash in London from Mr. Leake 
do do do i.'.’ 
^0 do 
circular notes ... 
Mr. Leake's payment to Mesars. Mal- 
colm, Kearton & Oo. ... 
Keceived in Moscow from Mr. Leake 
draft on N. 0. B. C. negotiated with 
Lonne.i & Co. at 85 30 1600-93 
Leas Telegram to London 1-85 
Received from Mr. Leako through 
Mosire. Spence, Wallis & Oo. London... 250 
£ 
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33 
6 
33 
6 
38 
6 
30 
00 
10 
00 
10 
00 
10 
00 
60 
00 
50 
00 
25 
00 
187 
13 
250 
■it average exchange Rbs. 85 6567-80 £ 772 13 8 
, Recapitheation of Accounts. 
Account XI 
L — Oenoral Expenses ... 3,405-10 
“•“OpeningofRusiness (((share) 1,700-00 
'll. — Travelling aooouut ... 418-00 
ly.— Reclaim ... 1,555-70 
-jy — French Exhibition Kiosk... 2,010-00 
’'I* — Nijni Novgorod Fair 4 share 830-00 
Hbsi 9,918 80 
Amount received as per statement 
No. VII. £772 13s 8d 6,567 80 
Over Expenditure Rbs. 3,351 00 
NOTES ON PRODUCE AND FINANCE. 
Last Week’s Tea Sales. — Importers have shown 
loss disposition to over-snpply the market with Indian 
tea, and oonsequently the quantity bioogbt forwad 
has been smaller than of late, says the Produce 
MarKets Jieview. Now that there are iudicatioos of 
n failing-off in the demand, owners will be.st study 
their interest by not forcing (heir tea on unwillicg 
hnyers for the next few weeks. Although the 
enquiry has not been so active, a fair business has 
heen transacted at generally steady prices. The Agates 
tor the past month, compared with those of last 
W-f , are on the whole satisfactory. The imports 
show an increase of upwards of 400,000 lb., namely 
18,870,060 lb. against 14,526,000 lb., and the delivery 
10.061.000 ib., as compared with 9,6O6,O0O lb. The 
stock shows a considerable augmentation, being 
4.380.000 lb., against 30,977,000 lb. last year, and 
his is attributable to the heavier imports, which 
have reached the 0»rge total of 62,300,000 lb. for 
the past Ave months, against 53,100,000 lb. in the 
same period in 1890, At the public sales 41,000 
packages were offered, 4,000 of which were with- 
drawn, In Ceylou teas an unimportant increase in 
the quantity of tea offered baa been fallowed by 
a very slight fall in the price of common des- 
oriptions. Good teas, however, whether leafy or 
broken, have Armly maintained the late riee in 
value, and a few breaks of extra quality fetched 
very high rates. The general demand oonlinuos 
good. The most atrikiug fact connected with the 
London stock returns for the past month, says the 
Oroeer, is that the landings of Indian tea have reached 
18.870.000 lb. which supply wee 4,343,500 Ib. heavier 
than in the same period last year. It was therefore 
a matter of comparatively little importance that the 
deliveries daring Nov. were 10,042,000 lb., or 434,850 lb. 
larger than in 1890, as the addition to the quantity 
on band was naturally very ooneidcrable, and the 
amonnt held in the bonded warehouses on the 80th 
ult. embraced 40,362,800 lb-, or 9,384.760 lb. more 
than at that date in the previous year. In the qnautity 
pressiog forward by auction little curtailment has 
been notice!, the work's assortment having pre- 
sented a total of 40,420 packages, which have again 
greatly tried the capabilities of the trade in tas.ing 
and valning, to say nothing of the exhausting efforts of 
bidding and recording bids in the publio sale-room, and 
ns a larger proportion of these snpplies than ever seems 
to ronsist of low, common and medium qualities, they 
have goce off at very cheap rates, especially for teas 
uuder 9d per lb., so that many persona are beginning 
to ask themselves whether the lowest point of the 
season has not been reached. On most grades there is 
a decline of 2d per lb. from the best rates of about two 
months ago, and should the eagerness to realise abate' 
Buoh teas as the above would probably be som snapped 
up at a smart reaction. For other and the Auer kinds 
the^ demaod has been steady without beioff particularly 
active, and the market at the close h»s a healthy, thouiih 
rather quiet, aspect. 
The Manufacture op Imitation Coffee.— Aooord- 
* psper by G. L. Spencer and E. K. Ewell, 
of tho American Associatioo, wbeaton flour and brau 
mixed with molasses seem to be tho favourite materials 
for the manufaolnre of imitation coffees. Tho manufac- 
turer never selects a good quality of dour, siuco a bad or 
damaged article answers equally well, besides being 
cheaper. Refuse biscuits and the waste products of 
bakeries also supply a portion^of the material employed, 
A factory was recently seized in France, when it was 
discovered tliat “ coffee” was being made out of a mix- 
ture consisting of 500 parts of snlpfaate of iron, 16 000 
parts of chicory, and 35,000 parts of Aour. 8acli a 
mixture as this cannot but be detrimental to the health 
oftheoousumer. But most of the artiAcial ‘‘coffees” 
consist of less harmful ingredients, which, however, if 
they do not affect the health specially, affect the purse 
oltbe purchaser. 
Bills OF Lading and the Eastern Trade,— In a 
letter signed by Messrs. Henderson Bros., for 
Anchor Line ; Messrs. Robert Alexander & Oo., for 
Hall Line ; and Messrs. Oayzer, Irvine, h Oo., for 
Clan Lino, the writer soy “ Referring to the 
remarks that have appeared in your paper, in 
oonneotloD with a clause in some bills of lading giving 
tho shipowner a lien on tlie goods for freights, clitrgog 
debts, Ac , other than those properly appertaining to 
the goods mentioned therein, we beg to inform you 
that tho bill of lading in use by our respeolivo Arms 
in the oasteru trade waa agreed with the Manchester 
Ohsmbor of Commerce in 1887, aud does not contain 
tho objectionable clause referred to. Owing to lli 
numerous letters we have reoeived on the subject we 
tWs letter” Publi^it'; 
