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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1182, 26 October 1894, Page 9

Tho Queen’s physicians are four in number, and the royal doctor’s’ bill is said to amount to <£Boo yearly. “It is hardly correct to say,” writes a correspondent of an English paper, “that America obtains her tea mainly from China, for it must be remembered that she takes practically the whole of the Japanese crop which is not consumed in the country. It is a curious thing that while in England Japanese tea is unknown, in some parts of the United States and Canada, particularly in the west, hardly any other kind is to be had. Immense quantities are now shipped across the Pacific, and the trade is growing with every year. The taste for Japanese tea is essentially an acquired one; it is, in fact, to the drinker of India or China tea a somewhat sickly fluid, but the more robust beverage of Ceylon is not likely to oust it from the affections of American's.”

The Lancaster Gazette has ceased to appear, after an existence of a little over 93 years. It was a sixpenny paper when first established, and at its birth in 1801 there was only one other newspaper published in the country—at Liverpool. The final issue was numbered 6498.