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Marine's sad Death.
TEA.
Huge Consumption in the British Empire.
THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913.
portant is an essential; pungency, caused chiefly by the unfermented (unoxidized) “tannisa".
presence (oxida-
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per in large part of "tannin" add ite ten fermentation products. took place on the following after principal rea-drinking countries, noon, with full military honours, is no less than ten times that of abused "tannin" will thus be The importance of the much- The deceased was 28 years of age, foreign countries, excluding the observed. Whatever may be its and was unmarried. He was a United States. But this com- native of Clerkenwell, London. parison, owing to
disparity between the populations cial value is obvious. Whilst the Road, Kowloon; from 18
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1st" is harmful in its effect on the "COOMBE," Magazine Gap, with imports for home consumption
November next alone are considered, we find the 57tem, the fact remains that, Tennis Lawn. following interesting figures for apart from special questions of FOR SALE HARTING and 1011:
flavour, teas which the expert ROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-" regards as the finest, and there-land Lot No. 1154. ** fore regulating their market valne, No. 9 Conduit Road. Fine View FOR SALE "LADBROKE.”: sro precisely those which contain the highest percentage of so-call-Garden and Tennis Court. Ac of harbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, edania." The vital question comodations for 30 Servants. for the planter is how far pun-
Weather in the North.
The highest recorried temper ature in Chefon this summer was that of Inst Friday week, 93 per cent. Fab. During Friday night to south-east wind, which aprang up that afternoon, increased, to galo fonec. The morning shortly after nine the clonde which had been gathering in the north broke, and when the wind veered to that direction rain fell all through the day in torrents, ac companied by heavy clape of hunder and vivid flashes of lightning.
In million b.
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ter takes no account at least, con-OLET-Well furnished large that, the Houtao District which
sciously of the caffeine coutant Tanse figures are derived from when judging the value of a tes. family: suitable for two Bach room with board, English was proverbially a poor one, was a report by Dr S E. Chandler, The highest-priced teas are in slors, Upper level, splendid view! in urgent need of funds to carry based on a series of lectures on general prepared from the young-of Harbour; large Vorsadahs. on the administration and to payThe Economics of the Tea Trude," est leaves of the plant, which cou-Amply D.AG. co its troops. The Ministry replied delivered by him at the Lonilontain the greatest relative prapor- that great difficulty was already School of Economics and Politicaltion of caffeine; but these tens are
| Telegraph." supplying fagus for the military 1913, a synopsis of which is ters and not for caffeine. None TLC Mountain View, The object for right man. Only com- experienced by the Ministry in Science during the eut Torm, valued on leaf and other charac- expenditures, nd that the republished in the current number the less, recent resourches have sources at present were excep. of the "Betin of the Eruperial shown the existence of a close re- tionally straine, and therefore Institute." Dr Chandler's conlationship between the tanniu and the request could not be complied tribution on the cultivation and caffeine present in a tea liquor. with.-"Peking Daily News." manufacture of tea (supplemented Naval Vessels on the Yangtze, by another, with some valuable In the House of Commons ou tables, by Mr John McEwan, on July 28, in reply to Mr Gershon the commercial aspects) doula very Stewart, Mr Churchill said. By fully with the subject and in latest advices there are twelvo cidentally removes or qualifier of his Majesty's ships between some popular misconceptions. Hankow and Shanghai, threo ut Shanghai itself. Two more large in connection with the nomencla- countries Dr. Chandler, in the ar- monace to public health
Among the difficulties that arise shipa are proceeding to Woosung tura of the ten-plant, part are in ticle referred to eutere at some recently sent to the London and two destroyers to Shanghai. be attributed to the incorrect an-length. It seems probable that" Morning Post," under the signa- There are no gunboats in reserve derstanding existing for many the advantages resulting to the ares of Sir Thomas Barlow and at Hongkong, but there are years, as to the relationship be-East India Company from their other eminent physicians. torpedo craft which can be em-tween the black and the green tens monopoly of the China ten trade In all the organized effort in the ployed on river work if necessary. As is now common knowledge, contributed largely to the delay cause of the public health, say The date for the delivery of the says Dr Chandler, the differences in establishing a tea industry the writers, there is one note- two new river cunboats of the between these two kinds of tea in India. In present year's programme is not result entirely with the probable Chinese
selecting the worthy omission. "There has plant, too, yet settled, but on present inform-
ав always been a tion it is estimated that the vessels Oolonge from difference in the mistake was made which it has diseases. The time, however, lias Formorant basis for the Indian tea industry, silence se regards venereal exception of the
conspiracy of will be completed in the early methods of manufacture, taken many years to rectify; the come when it is a national duty part of 1915.
and in no way are due to specifio superiority of the Indian plant to face the facts and to bring Ex-Lieut. Sutor Again Sentenced. distinctions in the plants yielding for Indian conditions is now estab- them prominently to the notice of At Bow-street on August 1 ex-the green leaf. Black and green lished beyond question. Experi- the public. When the subject Lieut. Alan Sutor was charged, teas can be obtained from the ence has shown that of the areas was discmarad last year at the on remand, with wilfully break- same plant, either by allowing or in India suitable to the cultivation Royal Society of Medicine it was to an optician of doubtful ability ing a pane of glass at the inspec by preventing the process of fer- of ten, Assam-where, a far back, stated without contradiction that to purchase glasses upon which There is no economy in going tors room at Bow-street Police mentation (oxidation), while brick as 1819-24, a fine variety of tea in London alone there are forty your eye-sight depends. etation, the damage being estimat- and tablet teas are, erectially, plent was found growing wild-is thousand new cases of the gravest Personal attention is given to
vious occasions, and he had bean
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We are living to-day," the lotter continues, "in a new era as regards diagnosis and treatment. The microbes responsible fo these diseases have been discover ad in recent years; means of diagnosis far in advance of pre mously improve. The time i vious experience have been enor- therefore appropriate for an an organized effort on a com, incidence of these diseases. prehensive scalo to reduce the
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With the evidence now avail-among the principal areas of pro-whole a hundred and thirty thous mind to be inquired into. The quires a warm tropical or sub-(Brahmaputra Valley and Surma magistrate now read the report of tropical climate, rather than the Valley, including Cachar and disease is highly contagious and "The worst form of venereal the prison doctor, the nature of conditions prevalent in the hot-Sylhet) accounted for 354,000 dire in its effects. It claims its which was not made public. Prisoner then began one of his test parts of the tropics. It cer- areas under tea, whilst the rest of victime not only from those who
tainly demanda an atmosphere India accounted for only 218,000 have themselves to blame for Note: characteristic speeches, in which rendered mere or less humid con aores: The Assam and Bengal contracting it. It is one of those he said the spirit of self bad been tinuously by an evenly distribut-areas taken together comprise diseases that may be transmitted arucified within him, when he od rainfall of not less than 60in, early nine-tenths of the total from parent to child, so that the Optician in D'Aguilar St.. was stopped by the magistrate, during the year; although, as is acreage ander tea in India. The offspring of a sufferer is born who said he could only liston to well known, the best tes districts total number of persons in 1911 with the virus, actually in its any explanation that might be of Assam and Ceylon have a raia-employed in the industry was tissues, to cause, it may be, given as to why he broke this fall greatly in excess of this min-618,962 and the number of hideous deformity, or blindness, window. The prisoner was pro-imum, the average for the most plantantions comprising the total or deafness, or idiocy, ending ceeding to speak in the same successful districts of India being aorage is returned 4,414, the often in premature, though not strain when he was sentenced to over 90in. It is however, re-largest gardens (averaging from untimely, death. two months' imprisonment.
Sad Death of a Shanghai cognized that, as regards India, 300 to 400 acres) being founded
the total amount of the annual in Assam,
Journalist.
The death is announced of Mr.
P. A. Baart, of the staff of the
China Republican," which took
rainfall is no true index to the
suitability of a given area for tea;
far more depends on the sufficien-
place at the Shanghai last week. oy of the precipitation during tho The decessed was a native of dry monthe (February to May, Yorkshire, and subsequently inclusive).
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