j SIR ANDREW' CLARK, LL- I>. -j F.R, S., F.R. C.P. (Physician in ordinary to'the Queen, 1321). LECTURE ON TEA To the Students of the London Hospital. j ...... (Extract from the "Pall Mall Budget.") ' ' Tea, to be '-useful_, should be first of all blacl? China Tea. The Indian Tea which is being cultivated - , has become so powerful in its effects upon the nervous system that a cup of it-taken early in the morning, as I many people do, so disorders the ' " nervous system, that those who take , it actually.get inio a state of tea ; - intoxication, and it produces a form of nerve disturbance which.is most painful to witness. "•' Althotigh we arc the largest dealers in Indian and Ceylon' Teaß in the Colonies, we have alw;ays -strongly; advised .the public to drink our Blended Teas in preference to Indian or Ceylon alone. We maintain they are too sickly for 90 pep cent, of the tea drinking public;; and in England, where such large quantities are shipped, over 80 pep cent, are used for Blending" with China. Teas, which are undoubtedly as Pupe as Indian and Ceylon, and fap mope refreshing , when properly Blended. Many inexperienced firrus push Indian and Ceylon on the public because ie is beyond them to produce a regular, true blend, and the profit is larger, for'cheap common Indians give out a strong, coarse liquor, without any quality, and make people, for a time, fancy they are getting a bargain, till they find out, to their cost, that SIR A. CLARK is right. The leading , medical men in England arc condemning , the use of Indian nnd Ceylon Tea alone, and the above extract from Sir A. Clark's Lecture must convince all that a taste for Indians, which has to be acquired by force at first, i« a serious and dangerous thing. , We are publishing the above extract for the benefit of those that have not seen it, and to support what we have always maintained. This iff against our own interests, for the profit ou these Tea.B ia equal if not more than that on other kinds. . . , NELSON, MOATE & CO., ' Indian, China, and Ceylon Tea Importers, Christchurch, Auckland, Dunedin/ Wellington, Hobart,• and Launceston.
