ARTIFICIALLY-COLOURED. TEA.
INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM AN AMERICAN JOURNAL
It had been decided to exclude all soloured tens from the U.S.A. after 1st May, 1911.
There is a Canadian protest, against the proposed labelling of artificially coloured tens da the January issue of the Tea & Cofee Trade Journal, of New York. The writor says: "It is proposed, that all tons that are artificially coloured and received into the country after May 1st, 1911, bo so marked on the container in which they are sold. I naturally prosume that. as this law is supposed to bo a protection for the public, in accordance with the Pure Food Law, it means that every pound of coloured toa sold over the counter after May 1st, 1911, must be marked on the paper bag or other packet which the retailer must use, artificially coloured or artificially facod. Vory woll and good, if such i law would be a profit to the public Vorg well und good, slso, if all coloured teus wore detrimental to health or unwholgeoma And some of them unIsabtedly are. But are the appraisers of the United States going to down the catiro green ton buisiness of the world merely for the sake of a whim? "We have appraisers now," continues the writer, whose duty it is to seo that no tocenters the country which is not At for human canninption. What have they been doing during all the time they have hall office Have coloured tons been allowol to enter which would help to destroy - "
THAT MOST VALVED POSSESSION OF AN AMERICAN---HIS STOMACH?
If they have done so, they deserve to spend the balance of their natural lives moralising on tho general cussedness of human nature, and of their own in particular, in some secluded place for in- stance, penitentiary-where they might have time to repent of their foarfal depravity. But I decline to belieyo that these men have been work ing iniquity in their profession as tes appraisers and exports; and I fail to see why thor should let that old bugaboo of the colour line break out with virulence again--this time in the tea business. They bave broken away from the sacred tradition of a prejudice against the blacks. The change of sentiment is remark. able. To-day their whole efforts sro in favour. of the downtroddon black,' and they
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colour in tou is detrizacutal to public health or
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tons are admissible. I would say, as a tea dealer, that every importer in the States has a right to expent that he be provided with such simples, so that he may order supplies in an intelligent manner. Why should have to
in port goods in good faith, which on their arrival would havo to be branded with that demning label, 'artificially coloured'? How could one take orders in advance F How many people would, in their awful scare of drinking paint, take to another beverage which would in its resulta be far more harmful than the innocuona teas of China, Formosa, Japan or Ceylon? Why should a dealer who has spent a lifetime building up a tea business be enddon- ty confronted with the necessity of starting right over again because certain pure food: ap- praisers suddenly see their duty in a new light and decide that colour must go'? The ques tion for them which needs deciding is whether tea of any kind is harmful or not. That's what tho publie put these ten uppraisers in their po sitions to find out, and that a the line of action which for years they have been supposed to fol low. If they have done so, let them continue doing so. No ove in the United States knows of any one who has
DIED FROM DRINKING TRA OF ANY KIND
coloured or not, The United States Govern- mont des not insist that rejected teas shall be destroyed. What is not good enough for the
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"Does the Government see this very reasonable argument? If it done, it will at onco establish a chomieni test, and when a tos is rejected there will be no placo for it. but the furnace. To mon are not anxiouN They
to sell poor teas to the public, are desirous of keeping within the law in the ted business as in anything else. They simply want to know what that law is and not to be fumbling in the dark." A green tea law with- out standard samples would be the
MOST DISASTEOUS KIND OF THING ON THE TEA BUSINESS,"
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TO LAND PASSENGERS.
All the Steamers of the European Line are fitted with Wireless Telegraphic.
-continues the writer. "Practically no groan tea is without colour-call it artificial. if you like and such a law would either be the death blow of the Japanese tea industry or entirely Snoperative. In the case of Japin and Clins- greens it would require yours-if at all pos aible-te roadjust the public taste for teas with cut colour; and it is very questionable if the change would not be very much to the disadvantage of the ten in quality, Spoaking as a tea man, I can safely say that no the Gor ernment appraisers live up to the law and reject tens not up to the present standard, there is not more, ass in disturbing the les trade than there would be in disturbing a sleeping infant. Neither are doing any harm and will only raise a row if wakened up.” On the subject of coloured teas, witli reference to an opinion about them expressed by Dr. Wiley, our New York contemporary says: Dr. Wiley, having been cited as authority for the statement that
COLOURED TEAS ARE NOT DELETERIOUS, has come forth with an explanation. Hosays that he is not friendly to the colouring of teas, and that the report which he transmitted for publication some eighteen years ago, and which has been. attributed to him, was the work of another hand. Even that document, however, contained expres sions which cannot bo, used to reassure con- sumers who may like their tens as nature made them. The doctor sites the following passage: The treatment of teas with various colouring. matters, a process termed facing, comes properly for the purpose of deception their was should be under the head of adulterants. Facing discouraged. He adds that more is known on consists in treating the prepared leaves with the sabot now, than at the time when the bul- mixtures containing Prussian blue, tumeric, letin was issued, and this must be conceded. indigo or plumbago to Impart some favourite Hereafter, if the tea trade wants to reassure colour or gloss to the leaf, and always ha a comers who object to artificial colouring fraudulent intert. Leaves which have been matter, it had but not quote Dooter Wiley.” damaged in the manufacture or from their age. certain imperfections are faded to improve thair appearance and price. The teas consum- ed by the Chinese and Japanese themselves not faced, while those for export seldom escape this treatment. The Chinese and Japanese black tous are usually treated with plumbago (black lead). There is no evidence that these facing agents are deleterious to the health in the quan tities in which they are employed, but inasmuch
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about
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22 May
4700
April
·4600.
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4600 Day
31. July
6700
June
14
July
5 May
19
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From March 13th to 19th, 1911. HIGH WATER
Week.
Days of
eight.
LOW WATES.
H'kong
Hilang
Mean
Mean
Time.
Time.
ft. in h
ft.. in.
SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
29.94
30.07 29.96
DESTINATION
ATZAMERS
62
62
67
944 East
od
96
87
SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA and KOBE... CATHAY"
E
43
COPENHAGEN and BALTIC PORTS
034
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TRANQUBBAR". On 10th April.
MELCHERS & 00.,
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Thes.
Wed.
13m
9
08
14: 9:51
15
9.18 10 11
Thors 16
Fri
Sat.
17
18. im 11
San.
meter... Temperature Humidity Wind Direction
Forge........ Weather Rainset
Highest open sir Temperature on 11th...68 Lowest open air Temperatury on 11th.60
Hongkong, 4th March, 1911.
AGENTS
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5 4
4 13:
6 3
48m 2 42. 8.34 0.7 14 2 2a 3-2
5 0m 3 16 10:9 7.01 2.46 a 2 8 5 2m 3 45 11. 3.26 24 1.4
59 6 7
11 51
19 11 39
4 5 2 2
5 6m 4 4017
8. 4 45 a 2.2
5 7m 5 521
5 2 5 28 2 3
5.8m 5 26
614
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