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THE TROHiCAL A«RlClJLTURIST, 
[June i, 1892. 
proprietary riihts are cfftred to only ore proci r iu a 
district, and can be acqnirod by tbe purchase of one 
or more pr<pri*tor^* sbares of £10 each, bearing a 
preferootial miniamm dividend of 6 percent., tbe bold- 
ing of which confers the following advautaj-e : — “ The 
teas from tbo plantations acquired by the company will 
be packed in the usual way jo cheats, haU-chetts, and 
boxef, and will be offered on arrival direct to the pro> 
prietors, thus doing away wiih tbo interveoiiou cf 
middlemoo, and g-ving tbe piuprictorri an opp rtuni y 
to boy at prices considerably under thore nscally 
charged by the London wholesale dt slers. Samples 
will he submitted inn ply to enqntrr'P, and it vill bo 
quite optional for a pri’printor to purchase or t o*;. By 
this means hia inethjd of buying, or hia ex sting stylo 
and nnifurmity of blonds, will not in anv way l)e ciis* 
tnrbed. Kach proprietor will tbns be ji| a position to 
state tha^ ba supplioi teas direct from bis own planta- 
tions. of which views and full particulars can b'' ob- 
tained for exhibition on his premises, as well as furoi- 
ble handbills, &c. ; these, with well-directed advertifc- 
ments. as state I hereunder, will form a very powerful 
DjfdioHi to atlraot fresh customers. The following ar- 
rangements,’ I he prospectus states, “ have been en- 
tered into wi»h tbo I’lsuters’ Stores and Agoncy U om- 
pany, Limited, of I, Great WiLObester Street, Lot. ^dt n, 
£ 0., who are largely intens'ed in tea planting i—1. 
The Plantera* S’on’s and Agency Company Limted, 
nndortake to pay to the ci mpauy. for.thebenchc of the 
hoideri of proprietors’ shares, ao aggregate sum rqiial- 
ling 5 per cent ootbeamountof such shares for the time 
b( iog issued, to be distributed amongst tbe holders as 
remuDera'ioD lor tin ir sorvices as recideut agents for 
the sale of May-Bloom Tos, subject to tueb payment 
coaling when the protiis of the company sulhee to 
pay the full amount of the preferential dividend. *2. 
To manage t)ie plantations and entire work of the 
company at a moderate remuneration- 3. To advertise 
in conjunction with the grocers’ names in 'he county 
Preset by board at railway stations, and various other 
ways. 4. To confine the sale of tbe now well known 
brands, ‘May-Bloom Tea/ exclusively to the pro- 
prietors in their respectivo distticta. 5. To offer to 
the proprietors at speci'illf-rodaoed rates theirwelt- 
seleotod stock of oricinal toafl fr >m India, C» ylon, &c., 
standard t lends and other psckotsbeld at the Ir ‘’Maj • 
Bloom Tea‘ depot at 32, Midules-x Street Aldgnto.” 
The Investor Warnfd off ^We uotica that an 
eveniog p*per, The Echo, refers to the above con- 
cern [Ce>l >n and O ieotal Estates Co., Ld.l as 
“A Baring Belief Oornpiiiy/’ ani it says: — *‘uow 
is it, for instance, that no Haines of ( Id Ceylon planters 
are given as appljing for sha’-ea ? It tbo ’opportu' ity 
ot acquiring these e.statis ia so exceptional/ how in 
it that a large proportion of Iho capital required baa 
iijt been Riibncribod by rich ptoprietors and rrtired 
planters, of whom there are sro es iuLoiidcm? L»'t 
tbe directors proclaim tliat in aut-wer to a nrof’jM c*us 
posted up in tbe room of tbe ‘Ceylon Assoo'ation 
in London’ some two or tlirte thousand share'* have 
been taken by Ceyiou men, and we shall unhertiia ingly 
advise the public even to pay a good premium for 
the ronoainderof tbe shares. Less than a month ago Mr. 
Ferffusou addressed a room-full of Ceylon residents, 
active and retired, at tbe Royal Colonial Icstitutc ; how 
many of these aru as-iating to relieve tbo Barings and 
Mr. Thring of their rvylon estaips at n va'uaii- n based 
upon the proAts of 1801, whuu tra averaged a fair 
higher price? We ve<.tiire to say, not manv. Nor are 
the (stages themselves by any moans tbe t'i' k of Ceylon 
properties. On Peacock Hill and Bogahawattie tbe 
wind is damaging, both orcupyiog exposed >^i‘uatione. 
The former is situ ite just below the Upper Peak estnto 
of Moonoragalla Mountain, and tie latter at the Gin 
(Bogahawattie G p)i between Dimbula and Kotmalie. 
For obvious reasons, it wunUl be fata) to fell any 
additional jungle land, if by so doing it gave aooi ss 
to tbe violent wind prevalent during Iwr) m nths of 
the yper. Be all this as it may, however, tbe fall in 
the p'ice of to\, and its entire ommis*«ion from tbo 
prospectus, is quite suAioient warranty for as to reoom- 
mend prudent people to leave the Cujlon and Oriental 
Estates Company to those persons who are well ao- 
qnainted witbth*^ estates, and also with the rational fore- 
casts nade of tbe tea market by broke a and dea’ers/* 
Tnp. Bi-METALLiO Question. — A numerously attended 
meeting of bankers and merchants was held on Tuesday 
night in the Boardroom of the New Orlinial Bank, 
London, to consider tbo position of the currency 
question, wi'h special rofercnce to tbe interests of 
tbi* City of London. Mr. J. Howard Gwyther occu- 
pied the char. After fome discussion tbe following 
resolution was ULanirnously passed : — “That a City of 
London Committee of the Bimitallic League be formed 
lo urge npon the Briti-h Government the necessity 
of Co-operating with other leading nations for the 
establishment by internalional aprrement of the un- 
roHtrioted coinage of gold end fi'ver, at such 
Hied ratio ns many bo agreed upon, and that the 
following gentlemen ccns’itute mch Committee, with 
power to add to their number: — H H. Gibbs, M.P., 
Sir Thoman Suthor'and, M.P., S. Montague, M.P., 
A. D. Provand, M P., fc^arapj-on S. Lloyd, H. R. Grenfell, 
Sir Hector M. Hay, J. Howard Gwytber, Edward 
S'psoon, R<^*uhen Sat-soon, Edward Laoglev, J. T. 
Hor’ey, A. Von Andre, II. R. B» eton, David M'Leou, H 
Schm dt, J. F. Ouilvy, Hcrbet C. Gibbs, Thomas A. 
Weltop, Henry Coke, It T. Klude, A. ZmmorD, A. 
Cutteroll Tupp, W. Koawick, and W- Paterson. ” It 
WHS also decided to koM a public meeting at the City 
of Loudon Institute s^onafer Estate, at which Mr. 
S* S. Lloyd has consented to take tie chair, when 
Mr. H. 0. Guihhs will read a paper on silver ques- 
tion iu rdation to tbe interest of the City of London 
— -i/. and C, Ma\l^ April 8th. 
Aveb/ok Product of Fruit Trees. — To those who 
desire to cs'imate the crops of tbe future, the 
foUowiug table will be of some interest. It is based 
upon a fair average production rf trees in full bear- 
ing and under proper treatment, planted as usually 
in orchard: — 
TONS PEBACHK TONS PER ACHE 
Apples 1 Walnntfl 
Apricots 5 Almonds 1* 
Prunes 0 boxes per tree. 
Pears 5 Oranges, budded. . U 
FI»'B 8 Oranges, seedling 12 
Peaches 5 Lem?u, luddeil.... A 
— Jtural Californian. 
Coffee Cultivation in Java. — A report from 
tbe BiiMsb Minister at tbe Hague on Netherlands- 
Iudi;i dosorihea t ie conuexi io of tke Goven ment 
with coffee cultivation in these oolonioe. The greater 
number of the coffte plantaiions iu the Dutch posses- 
sions HCA directly under Governmcf^t managf iueut, 
the n-lives being cc.aipelled to cultivate coffee in 
place of paying taxes, while the autboritioa receive 
Iho whole rf the produce at the 6xed price of 15 
flofiLS (£l 6a) fnr every picul o! 13S l-3rd lb. A cer- 
tain amount is then di^^pcsed of iu tbe colonies tbem- 
selvep, and ilie rema nder is sold in Amsterdam and 
Ilotii rtiam, tie u«ual practice being not to sell one 
yoBt’a crop in Holland until tbe following year, 
aUhuugb, as an exception, part of U^t year’s crop 
was sold towards the clesu ol the year. Tho fluctua- 
tions in the returns from coffee hav>‘ of late years 
been c nsiderable, owing mainly to variations in the 
yield. But it also appears that a change has come 
over the conditions of cultivation in consequence of 
the exUrnstion of tbe soil, wbtcb has bad tbo effect 
of comnelling tho Government to bandon it in some 
clihiricis. Tbn labour on tbe plantations is not now 
the 4‘nly form of taxation to which the natives in 
Ni-th* TlsudB-Iiidia arehahle. Form* rly f*^udal sf rvico, 
in the form of so many days’ labour, was enacted, not 
only tor public work®, but for ilia private ben* fit of 
native cfhcials. In 18d2tbeiie services, so far ns tbe 
native officials were concerned, were abolished, oora- 
peu^atiou being made to them in the shape of an 
increase of salary, w'hilo a poll-tax of one flarin was 
imposed on the natives Tbe amount of this tax was 
found to bo mire than was required for the increase 
In sttlari 8, so that tbo authontios have been e tabled 
to abuliHh all corapuUory services, the surplus yielded 
hy the tux defraying the expenres consequent on the 
abolition. — London 'TimeSt April lOtb, 
