INDIAN TEAS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1989, 9 July 1880, Page 3

INDIAN TEAS.

Yesterday afternoon Messrs Acland, Campbell and Co., who have received a parcel of Indian teas for introduction to this market, provided a novel but at the same time very agreeable method of making known to tho public the quality of the teas. The Oddfellows’ Hall was very handsomely furnished as a drawing-room with ottomans, five o’clock tea, and occasional tables, couches, and chairs, and a staff of waiters in the orthodox evening drees, were also in attendance to dispense the cup that cheers but does not inebriate. There was a large attendance of visitors, many of whom were ladies. The many friends of newspaper men who have recently expressed such regret for their lost condition must have been rejoiced at the largo number who joined in discussing the harmless beverage, and who took to the tea in a way which ehowed how thoroughly they enjoyed it. The arrangements for tho browing were, by some odd circumstance, confided to the charge of a stalwart boniface, who has recently assumed the proprietorship of a wellknown centrally situated hotel, and he certainly acquitted himself in his new and, to him, unwonted sphere of action with great ability. Four kinds of tea were provided for testing, two being pekoe souchong, one souchong, and one broken pekoe. Whilst the general opinion seemed to be that the mixing of the teas with other sorts as a flavoring was the right thing, still the verdict of a number was that the teas possessed many good qualities. Of the four varieties, to a non-professional taste the broken pekoe was tho best drinking, soft and pleasant; tho strong flavor of the orange pekoe, to which many object, being absent. As a meins of introducing a new article to tho market there can be no doubt that Messrs Acland, Campbell and Co. have hit upon a novelty, and one which will no doubt have some effect upon the consumption of the article when it • gets into the hands of the trade.