The Fall in Produce.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 1 September 1894, Page 4

The Fall in Produce.

A glance over the price current of > the Grocer for July shows a very re- ■ markable difference between this 1 time last year aDd the present date ■ in almost all articles of consumption, ' The following are examples : —

Spices are all cheaper. Cheese is tbe only item that shows something 1 of a rise. Such items as frozen meat are not included. We know how serious the fall in it has been, with the stores all glutted, and a further fall impending. From the point of view of tbe producing countries and producing classes, tbe general fall is a disaster. From the point of view of the wage-earners at Home, it is an immense gain. Earnings o* £40 wil go about as far this \ear in purchasing the necessaries of life and wba are called the luxuries of the poor, as enrninjis of from £50 to £60 would last year. What can be the cause ? The appreciation of gold will hardly do, as the output of gola last year approximated to that of the fifties and sixties. In the general advance of science and enterprise in cheapening , everything, and bringing all countries nearer to the great cntres, there seems a tendency that must be reckoned with to a continual lowering of prices. Ihe advocates of a borrowing policy would do well to bear it in mind that for every £100 of interest for which we made ourselves liable ten years ago, we hiive now to s<*nd away about £150 worth of produce measured by the standard of that date, and tbat there seems every prospect, of the same process going on, perhaps at an accelerating rate, m the future. — Pre«s A curious operation was p<rfor«ned a tbe District Hospital on Hunday week by one nf the honorary medical officers, Dr J, A. Reid. 'Ihe Utile daughter of a resident named Palethorpe. seven years ago, has suf fererd tor some five years from a painful affection of the nose, causing a discharge of a virulent character, and warranting the belief that ultimately it 'right cause her death. The child has been treated at the W.-lhourne Kve and Ear Hospital and by several Melbourne doctors, who were unable to affoid her relief beyond the appli cati _of local remedies. She wus admitted t 0 the hospital, and Dr Reid considered it advisable that an operation sheuld be performed, which w»s done under the influence of chloroform, for he considered that a piece of diseased hone should be excispd. The opeiation revealed the presence of a bone shirt stud, which being extracted there is no doubt whatever of the child's speedy recovery. The stud, which is discoloured but not decayed, mu>t have heen thrust up the nostril when the patient was a mere infant

' Cocoa ... fall 20 per cent. '' Coffee ... « 5 „ Corn ... „ 10 „ Flour ... „10 to 20 „ Dried Frnits „30to 50 „ Green Fruits „ 25 „ Oi) Cake ... „ 15 „ Oils ... „ 15 Butter ... „ 25 „ Pork ... „ 30 „ Sago ... „ 10 „ Seeds ... „ 20 „ Sugar ... „15 to 80 „ Tallow ... „ 20 Tea ... „ 30