To Tea-Drinkers.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4268, 5 September 1882, Page 2

To Tea-Drinkers.

[By Telegbaph.] (FBOM OUR OWN COBBESPOtfKENT.^ Wellington, JEast^gn'r; The Government Tea Bill, just distributed, declares that all imported tea shall be subject to be detained for examination by any officer of the Customs. Samples of all tea imported may, when deemed necessary, be taken without pay* meat, and may be examined by an analytical chemist. If, upon examination, the analytical chemist shall certify that the" tea is unfit for human consumption, the whole of the packages bearing the same brand' or marks as the packages of tea from which such samples were taken shall be deemed to be goods prohibited to be imported, and shall -be forfeited, with the proviso, however, that the importer or owner of such tea. shall be entitled to take legal, proceedings against Her Majesty the Queen for the purpose of determining the liability to forfeiture of such tea.- If, upon examination the tea shall be found to be exhausted or' to.. be mixed with other substances deleterious or otherwise, or with ■ exhausted"\tea; to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, , he may order that the whole of [the packages of tea shall be detained, and not be delivered either for home consumption or for exportation unless on such terms and conditions as he shall think fit!' "Tha importer or owner of any tea' Ordered to" be detained as aforesaid, or vvtiich may be forfeited* under provisions of" this Act shall? pay all fees and other expenses incidenftd the analysis of such,- ; tt>»,and' all vsuch fees and expenses shall^oe^.regarded as and a ddta~trH»^%hpL;/£ Grown, and recoverable as such. z^aißly '* person either as owner or impojiil^'be found to have more than-twice i°WJMMI tea- which was subsequently io\umW9e deleterious -to human consumpttw; :or - exhausted, or mixed with other' 'sub'•' stances or with exhausted tea, the Commissioner may cause such person, name and place of abode to be published ait the expense of such person in some newspaper circulating in the district in - which he has his usual place of business, 1; and. such expense sball be recoverable as , a debt due tothe Crown.