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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19282, 20 September 1924, Page 4

Tho fourth centenary of the introduction of cocoa into Europe has been celebrated. Of the three popular beverages cocoa was introduced into Europe first. There is no reference to tea in European literature before 1588, and the appreciation of coffee as a beverage dates only from the 17th century. The soldiers of Cortex, who landed in Mexico in 1519, first encountered cocoa there, and it was introduced into Spain about 1524. Coffee was used in Abyssinia in tho 15th centrin', and it was then stated that it bad been used from time immemorial. Tea, according to Chinese legend, goes back to almoS 500 years before Christ, and it is asserted that it was a beverage as long ago as the Tang dynasty, which began in the seventh century. What said: If you want to meet the representative farmers of Otago, if you want a square deal and a square meal; if you want the finest whisky imported (Strong’s real mountain dew), if yon want the finest ninepenny cigar in Xew Zealand, call at the Provincial Hotel. Stafford street, Dunedin, Maurice Goughian, proprietor.— Advt.