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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 186, 17 June 1874, Page 3

There were green peaches on exhibition before one of our markets recently, and there was a melancholy interest in listening to the observations of people ns they passed the stand. “ Our Charley went to a better world with three of them,” said one lady in a cracked voice. “They made me an orphan, observed a ragged youn** man, wiping his eyes, “ WeTl meet above, dea? Danny,” and the young couple who said it passed tearfully by. “My old man pegged out on them things,” gasped a venerable old lady from the suburbs. And thus the mournful procession glided on. —Danbury News. The performance of Mr C. R Foster, an American spiritualist medium, at Melbourne. Ims caused the discussion of spiritualism to revive in the papers of that city. One writer says of Mr Foster’s seances, “ common conjurors like Heller and Haeelmeyer performed acts that are really a hundred time more surprising, and do not call upon you either to explain them or to accept Whatever gross superstition they may please to force upon you.” “ Happy is the country that has no history,” os flic schoolboy said on being flogged the third time for not knowing who was Henry Yl.’s wife.