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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 6692, 9 August 1882, Page 6

Tm is largely grown in the Indian province of Amid. Between 1878 end 1881 the population in consequence of this industry increased about 19 per cent, which wm largely dne to the importation of labour. The last tea report shows an area of 158,669 aoree under cultivation and an export to Bengal of 87,715,800 pounds. It is believed that the tea induitry will show a still further material advance in a few years. A meeting of the London unemployed was held in June, which was but poorly attended, there being not more than fifty or sixty persons, in the rooms. The Secretary stated that there were some 80,000 working men in London unemployed. The dock gates were thronged daily with people anxious but unable to obtain work, and more than 5000 men had registered their names desiring to emigrate. v The thieves in China have a custom of anawthetiiing occupants of rooms into which their business takes them. They prepare a composition of some medicated ingredient, supposed to be eoonite, and, lighting it, blow it into the room to be robbed by means of a tube through a hole bored in the wall or door. The inmates, if not entirely stupefied, are at least deprived of the power of speech and locomotion, and although they see the thieves at work, are unable to interfere. It is said that water absorbs the poison, and for this purpose it is quite oommon for wealthy people to sleep with a basin of water at their