Business Notices

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3553, 17 May 1880, Page 1

Business Notices

"John Cassbll 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 ngo than John Oassell. He arrived in London in 1838, with all his belongings tied up in a coloured handkerchief. At the various temperance meetings which he addressed, in a roogh and uncultured manner, but with an earnestness that proved his attachment. Ito temperauce views. He saw, however, that more was wanted than mere preach* it g, and with a sagacity deserving of recognition, ho projected two strong counteractive forces to intemperance— wholceome beverages and educational literature. 15 c Bet up in Fenchurch street■.an ■ establishment for the jmleof tea and coffee. A long way after him McGowaw follows with his 3s tea. McGowak has been in the tea trade for many years, and has a Homo and Colonial experience in selection that few can "lay claim to. A few years ago it occurred to him, after seeing the sameness of the quality of tea supplied on the Thames, that there was room for a better article than that usually sold. At , the same time ha saw that it would be suicidal to introduce a high price, bo he deterroinpd to, put before tho judges of good tea nn article for 3s, that could not be excelled, unless there were those weadhy enough to receive it from Russia, costing about 15s per lb there, being conveyed overland by caravan. Mo6t people have a bobby, and 3s TEA is McGowan's Hobby, get a pound and try it. Mcj3oWAN'a 3a Tea is different and distinct from all other Teas. It is,Ms intention, ft 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 the disparaging remarks of interested and unprincipled tradesmen.