March i, 1892.] 
THE TROPICAL AQRIOULTURIST, 
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effects of the Company." Hefore tho above Keso- 
lution was put to the meeting Messrs. Deane and 
Armstrong declined to serve unless they were un- 
animously elected. 
Resolution IV. was proposed by INfr. G. A.Tai.bot, 
seconded by Mr. A. R. Cuawpky-Bokvky. : — “That 
Mr. J, Guthrie bo appointed to inspect the Liquida- 
tor’s accounts.” 
The meeting of the ahareholders then dispersed. 
Confirmed at Kandy tliis ir)tli day of January 18d2. 
(Signed' C. Si’E.ut>Lv.v Ak-msthono, 
Chairman. 
Minutes of proceedings of an extraordinary gene- 
ral meeting of the shareholders of tho Ceyloa Tobncco 
Company Limited “ held within th© registered office 
No. 42 Kiog Street, Kandy, on Friday, the loth 
day of January 1892, at So^clook in the afternoon. 
Bu.'-inkss. 
To confirm the following special reRolution psased 
at the extraordinary meeting hold on November 
28th last at tho Company's registered office viz : — 
That the Ceylon Tobacco Company Limited, be 
wound up voluntarily.” Tho shareholders present 
were Mr. 0, S. Armstrong, Chairman of the Hoard 
of Directors), who presided Messrs. T. C. Iluxloy, 
R. li E. Walker, H. D. Deane, J. R. Fairweather, A 
Phihep (Secretary of the Company ). 
The notice calling tho mooting was read. 
The minutes of proceedings of tho Extraordinary 
general meeting of shareholders held on Satur- 
day the 2rtth day of November 1891 wore read and 
were confirmed. Road letters from Messrs. Volkart 
Rrotliers. 
Tho following gentlemen held proxie.s for share- 
holders absent: — Mr. A. PliiUp, for Messrs. H. J. 
Vollar, F. G. Bewes, J. T. Emerson, Alexander TaiL, 
George Wall, James Bisect, Mrs. Edith Dick, Messrs. 
A. P. Crawley-Boovoy, W. Megginson, E. II. Hutch- 
inson, J. M. Murdoch, Hugh Fraser, Mrs. A. P. 
Boustoad, Messrs. Thomas North Christie, David Uoid, 
H. K. Rutherford, T. N. Orchard, T. C. Owen, Norman 
W. Grieve, W Mills and S. L. Harries; Mr. C. S. 
Armstrong for Mr.P. E. Radley; Mr. H. D. Deane 
for Mr. 0. Miuto Gwatkin. 
Rosoluliou proposed by M'r. 0. S. Aroiatroog, seconded 
by Mr. T. C. Huxley, and uuanimouRly carried: 
•* That the following special resolution passed at the 
extraordinary general meeting held on Nov. 28th last 
at the Company’s Registered Office, viz.: That the 
Ceylon Tobacco Company Limited be wound up volun- 
tarily bo and the same is hereby confirmed, 
The meeting thereafter dispersed.” 
A. PuiLiP, Secretary. 
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A MuBOAn^ correspondent writes to a con- 
temporary :—“Oo£Eee .elling at K14-8 a bushel, 
delivered on the estate I No wonder we are all in 
such high spirits. Such crops and such prices have 
not been experienced lor years ! A happy Now Year 
indeed 1” — Madras Mail. 
CovFKE ANii I'Ki IN JAVA. — The estimate of the 
Q overnment's coffee crop on Java is, according to 
a telegram, 385,194 piculs. The latest reports 
regarding the weather in Java are favourable (or 
the ooJIoe cultivation. The outturn of the crop 
will be generally equal to the preceding one, anil 
Gspeoially in .Malay, tho crop will bo large. Otherpro- 
uuoe, suoh as sugar, tobacco, indigo, and tea, which 
require plenty of rain, have suSeied much from 
the excessive drought, which has prevailed in Java, — 
L. and c. Kpress, Jan. lat. 
Tub SnPEBB Unoertaintv of Thinos in regard to 
the Australian pastoral and agriou’.tural industries is 
Being remarkably illustrated just now. A few months 
ago gueensland was in tho darkest depths of de- 
pression. Drought, as nsual, was the primal oause. 
ileavy and universal rains however, arrived just in 
the nick of time, and now the wool clip and the 
Wheat harvest have been enormous. The increase 
in live stock has been proportionate. In 1S8G tho 
returns were 9,090,000 sheep and 4,071,000 eattlc. 
•The estimate for the present year is 21,000,000 sheep 
and 0,250,000 cattle. Suoh is the difference in 
eountries subject to severe and protracted drouabts 
of a few inohea of rain at the right time . — Pall Mall 
<ia:ette. 
Cocoa ano its Gomiunations. — At the Woolwich 
Poliee-court, on December 23, Robert. Purvis, grocer, 
was sninmoned by tho Woolwich Local Board of 
Health for selling cocoa injuriously adulterated with 
66 per cent, of foreign matter. The analyst’s 
ceriilioate showed that tho sample contained 44 per 
cent, of cocoa, 40 per cent. o( starob, and 10 per oent. 
of sugar. The inspector by whom tho article was 
purchased said he paid Is. a pound, and that be 
brought some for his own oonsumption, and found 
it palatable. It was labelled “ Book Cocoa." Mr. 
Hughes, M.P,, who represented the Board, argued 
that if this was sold as a mixture it ought to 
have boon so labelled. It might be ealled “ooooa- 
starch.” Mr. Forbes said that ooeoa in its natural 
state contained 53 per oent. of vegetable fat, and 
this must either be removed or neutralised by the 
admixture of sugar or some suoh starob as arrow- 
root or sago, in order that it might easily be 
converted into a beverage and rendered fit for 
consumption. He produced a book written by Dr. 
Bell, publio analyst at Somerset House, in wbiob 
it was stated that cocoa eo prepared would not 
be considered ns adulterated so long as it was not 
described as pure coooa. Dr. Bell set down 36'70 
per oent. ooeoa to be a fair proportion to the 
other ingredients. This rook ooeoa which contained 
44 per cent, cocoa, ho contended, came under the 
exception allowed in the Act of Parliament to 
articles of onmmoroe containing nothing injurious 
and nothing added (or the purpose of fraudulently 
increasing its bulk. Mr. Kennedy, in giving judg- 
ment, said ho thought that ooeoa came under tha 
exception in the Act, and dismissed the summons. 
— Chemist and Drmjgist. 
Notmeo Gkowinq in the Webi Indies. — A good 
deal of attention is being paid to the propogation 
of nutmegs in Jamaioa, Large quantities of seed- 
nutmegs have recently been imparted there from 
some of the best Grenada estates. One woald-be 
cultivator has already ordered 10,000 young plants 
from the Government gardens, and another 6,000. 
The trees usually yield their first crop when nine 
years old, and oontinoe to boar for seventy or 
eighty years. Tho crop depends largely upon the 
amount of care bestowed upon the tree, the average 
in the W. Indies being 10 lb. of nutmegs and 1 
lb. of maoe every year, but from well-manured 
trees ton times that quantity has been obtained. 
A Grenada planter writes as follows to the manager 
of the Jamaica hortioultural ga-dena The mode 
adopted here for preparing nutmegs for the London 
market is very simple. The nutmegs are picked 
up from under the trees daily and brought into 
the boncan, where the maoe is peeled off and 
flat b6twe?n heavy blocks of wood, where it is left 
for two or throe days, then put into a case and 
left till it reaches tho proper colour. Tho nutmegs 
arc put into rooeptaoles (with fine-wire mesh bottoms 
so that the air can pass) inside the bouoan, and 
left there for three weeks or a month uotil tho 
nut begins to shako inside the shell. They are 
then shown the sun for a couple of hours a day for 
two or three days. After this they are oraoked. 
Groat care is necessary here, for if the outside 
shell is struck too hard it makes a black spot in 
the nutmeg whioh affeota the value oonsideribly. 
When oraoked, tha nuts are sorted aceording to 
size, put into ordinary fiour-bartels and shipped. 
By last mail the average of my prices was about 
2s t>.)d a lb. In tho shipment was included a case 
of pure rubbish — small shrivelled, worm-cats nuts 
fetching about Is a lb.-C/iew,t and Drugniif, 
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