To the Haditor of the Srk,—Now that the Tea. market has settled down at Home, it may, be interesting, to point, out how far the prophecies, whic wore given s0 freely two mouths ago, have been borne out by results.
The chief prophet was: the writer of the Tea article in the Courier, photo offusi
mainly to declaiming against the operations auning the Inter halt of May wore derated Tea at Hankow, one of his assertions bein, that, the, medium Teas at Tle (1s, 6a.; to is. 74. por Ib.) wore better. than good common Congou.
the, higher-cost ones, are now selling at a notorious that these tes, especially ofita, while ' good common Congou" is per pound Of course, every. one with any knowledge of tea laughed of these imilar absurd otatements, and admired the coolness of the writer, who is, I presume, a "Chaasze," in attributing such ridiculous action to his petitors.. It in a pity, however, for the public's sake, that such perversions of fact ahauld, be -permitted,.as they cannot be refuted for two months at best after they "ts welter in the Courier has lately been occtipied in describing recent settlements here of strings, of sound common tea,, as maloo Mixture," and.' similar, to- what was condemned in London some. two years, ago,", Now, Maloo Mixture; as la well Koi consists of the, sweepings from native tei-houses.re-dried, anc kinds of filth., What his object may be I do not now, but these and kindred statements are injurious and misleading, and it is high timg,, they, should be put a stop to and Tam, Sir, Yours faithfully, Shanghai, 28th Jul
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.