Business Notices

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3552, 14 May 1880, Page 1

Business Notices

"John Casseli still lives in the elevating stream of literature for ever flowing from the groat publishing house he founded. Few men have left a deeper mark on their ago than John Castell. He arrived in London in 1838, with all his belongings tied up in « coloured bar.dkercbief. At the various temperance meetings which he addrested, in a rough and uncultured manner, but with an earnestness that proved his attachment to temperance views. He saw, however, (bat more was wanted than mere preach* irq, and with a sagacity deserving of recognition, he projected two strong counteractive forces to intemperance— wholesome beverages and educational literature. He set np in Fenchurch street an establishment for the sale of tea and coffee. A long way after him McGoWAN follows with bis 3s tea. McGowan has been in the tea trade for many years, and has a Home and Colonial experience in selection that few can lay claim to. A few years ago it occurred to him, after seeing tb» sameness of the quality ef tea supplied on the Thames, that there wan room for a better article than that usually sold. At the same time ho saw that it would be suicidal to introduce a high price, so he determined to put before tbe judges of good tea an article for 3s, that could not be excelled, unless there were those wealthy , enough to receive it from Russia, costing about 15s per lb there, being conveyed overland by caravan. Most people have a hobby, and 3s TEA is McGcpAN's Hobby, get a pound and try it. McGowan'b 3s Tea is different and distinct from all other Teas. It ie Ms intention, at some future date, to publish, for the information of the trade, full instructions as to the plant, time of pulling, selection, manipulation, &o. The public are requested to judge for themselves, in preference to listening to tho disparaging remarks of interested and unprincipled tradesmen.