-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------------- | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | -------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------------- China | 128-1/2| 125-1/4| 114-1/2| 111-1/4| 114 |}All are Millions Indian | 36 | 35-1/2| 43-3/4| 48-1/2| 51-1/2|} of Pounds. -------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------------- TOTALS.| 164-1/2| 160-3/4| 158-1/4| 159-3/4| 165-1/2| -------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------------- Thus, while China Tea consumption has decreased in five years by fourteen and a-half millions of pounds, Indian has increased by fifteen and a-half millions! It must be remembered that the former table given at page 194 deals with imports, this with consumption, and thus the difference in the figures. The following extract from the _Tea Gazette_ (January, 1883) is interesting in a statistical point of view:-- The exports to Australia (which, as it is well known, have increased more than twenty-fold in six years) now occupy a position only second to that of the United Kingdom; and if the P. and O. Company would see its own interest, it would facilitate by every means in its power so important a development of a great industry. The Straits Settlements, in spite of their proximity to China, took last year ten times the quantity they took six years ago; and Persia, strange to say, has taken 54,712lbs. against 334lbs. in 1876-77--Turkey in Asia and Egypt, together, having taken also 21,488lbs. against 886lbs. in the same period. Mr. Liotard is of opinion that these are not a tithe of the openings that might be found; and it is to be hoped that at the Amsterdam Exhibition and elsewhere the Tea Syndicate will in no way relax its efforts. The imports of China Tea to India have, in the six years also above referred to, increased about 60 per cent. Speaking on this point, we are of opinion that the Syndicate might well make efforts to increase the local consumption of Indian Tea to the replacement of Chinas, and we feel sure that such organised exertion would be followed by very satisfactory results. The re-export of China Tea from India shows four times the quantity of six years ago--by far the greater quantity going to Persia and Turkey in Asia. Mr. Liotard thinks that the N.-W. P. and the Punjab might appropriate a good deal of this trade; and from the character of the Teas of these districts we are disposed to agree with him. The great increase of export from Karachi shows that this, to some extent, is being done.