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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 36, 3 September 1903, Page 3

' TABLET ' READERS !— Watch our advertising columns. The firms whose names appear there are progressive, enterprising, up-to-date. They want your trade and are prepared to cater for it. Give them a trial. And do us the kindness of mentioning the Tablet,' — •** R J te " EXCELSIOR " STEEL ADJUSTABLE HARkow is one of the most useful Implements on a farm : it doos the work, of all other harrows. Prices— 2-leaf to M^Si,/^ ft 6in ' £5 JOs ; 3 ~ leaf to cov er, 15ft (iin £8 MORROW, BASSETT and CO. Send for catalogue.-*" Those who regret the good old times conveniently iorget that one of the most popular adjuncts of every workingman's breakfast table nowadays— a cup of pure fragrant tea— was a luxury unknown in past ages even in royal households. Tea first became known to Europeans in 1610. The first reference to it by a native of Britain is in a letter dated June 27, 1615, written "by a Mr Wickham, which is in the records of the East India Company. From this time it became gradually known to the wealthy inhabitants of London. Pepys had his first cnp of tea, as recorded in his diary, in 1660, and it was then sold at four shillings the ounce. Contrast those times with the present, when the careful housewife can purchase a much superior article, such as Mackenzie's ' Cock o' the North ' tea, at 2s a pound. Every good wife must feel happy to live in an age when comnVerce has placed within her reach at such a low figure the best product of sunny Ceylon..,

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