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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 329, 4 December 1865, Page 3

Oamaeu Mineral Waters. The Oatnaru Times lays stress on the discovery of a spring of ■water, whose qualities closely resemble those for which Cheltenham and Aix la Chapelle have been so long celebrated. It remarks: —We may state that the component parts of the Aix la Chapelle and Cheltenham water (as we learn from a book of reference on the subject) consist chiefly of muriates of soda, lime, and magnesia, bicarbonate of eoda, and sulphuretted hydrogen, while those of the Harrogate water differ chiefly in the greater degree of their carbonization, a property remarkable also in the Thames water, about the neighborhood of Putney. Should the spring in question prove to be a chalybeate, Oamaru may in future be known as the Bath of these islands, and patients even from neighboring provinces may come to drink of the waters and find renewed health and vigor in the genial climate for which this district is already so much celebrated.” A Jubilation. — The Marlborough News is thus jubilant at the transferor the Provincial Government to Blenheim from Pictou:—“The battle hos been fairly fought and fairly won, without any stratagem, but by the aide of the people of the province, with their eyes fully open to the ultimate result. We do not for a moment believe that the present change is merely temporary. We had faith from the first that Blenheim, although only like a child, was the youug Hercules of the province capable of coping with and strangling the snakes—how much more has it grows up stronger and statelier year by year, will it be able to grapple with any slippery customer.. Monster Cauliflower. —The Timarn Herald .states that “a cauliflower” from the garden of Mr Green, Royal Hotel, was shown the other day, weighing forty-seven pounds. When divested of all its leaves and stalk, the flower alone weighed over twenty pounds. Quartz oh the Teeemakau.— The Canterbury Standard writes : —“ We are informed, on good authority, that an extensive quartz reef has been discovered near the Teremakau saddle. The discoverer is now in Christchurch, endeavoring to get up a company to work it. Of course, he is chary about giving precise information.