GENERAL NOTES.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 51, 17 March 1894, Page 6

GENERAL NOTES.

One of the leading commercial papers in London gives the total value of eggs imported into the United Kingdom the first eleven months of 1893 at £3,562,690. The greater portions of the receipts camejfrom France, which sent 3,705,679 great dozens (120’s) of eggs, or 758,290 great hundreds more than two years previously. Cheeses were lately selling in the Sydney markets at very low in instances as low as lyd to 2d having to be taken to clear out old lines. The Department of Agriculture (N.S.W.) lately received some magnificent specimens of apples. The fruit was grown on the farm of Mr Bead, near Molong, and each sample, weighed over a pound. It is stated that owing to the high railway rates it is impossible to put this fruit on Sydney market with any profit, and consequently it is allowed to rot on the ground. John O’Neil, 75, was watering a bull at Ballarat when the animal suddenly turned on him and gored him frightfully, one horn passing right through his body. The victim died almost immediately. A consignment of 413 hams sent from Victoria to Sydney were discovered to be totally unfit for human consumption, and were destroyed by fire. \