Those interested in the industries of Ceylon are making a thoroughly earnest effort to culti-vote close commercial interchange between the two countries. Not only was Ceylon ably and fully represented ut the Lat Exhibition, but entire success attende bits, which were of a character secure attention; besides which special p were taken to place them before the public in an attractive form. Ceylon found that she had no reason to be dissatisfied with the rom ult; and on the occasion of the present Melbourne Exhibition, she has ma point planters of Ceylon must be bestowing greater attention to this comparatively new industry id, a3 we predicted some little doubt that we shall lon presently no mean rival. True, tea yet been planted to any large extent, compel exten mn on the almost but the failure of coffee, if it continue, will
experimental scale on which it has hitherto been tried it has been found remunerative in the London market. for jong, being i brought Is, 2d. and 1034. per Ib. It therefore, that planters in Ceylon inning to understand and pay close attention to manufacture—a point in which, formerly, they wore necessarily woak; and encouragement such as the above prices affords, can only have the effect of stimulating further extensions and still more improved cultivation ani manufacture, The world nowadays will not stand atill, and we shall only wise to look for and anticipate competiti America seems tea cultivation, the climatic conditions of the countr favourable to the growth of tea, in a profitable suse, still, in such a vast country, with auch increasing population, a uew industry fered sufficiently successful if It the necessaries of life to engag it. In America, too, we may be sure that so far from opposition on the part of the Government towards people attempting to develop new industries, every encowragenent will be afforded them, quite on the cards that the next ten years America growing her own tea, and ig it—unless we have previously been ise enough to show them, thus, that they can ver hope to reach our standard of quality.
All these things point, we say, to an active canvass, by us, of the world's markets, that we may not, like the foolish virgins, be taken unawares.—Indian Tea Gazette, Ist December.
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