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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1110, 2 September 1871, Page 3

Mr Henry Headway, the Mayor of Carisbrook/ last season gathered a quantity of slipstone peaches when they were partially ripe, and divided them into quarters, laid them on the walk to • dry"in the sun for ihiee or four days, and then placed them in a bag for winter use, They were recently used, and proved most delicious, when steeped in warm water and used in a pie or pudding, or dried as a desert. They were pronomieed very superior to the American dried apple. An American paper relates the following :■—The people of Oswego, New York, have, been of late very exultant over the discovery, near that city, ot a spring whose waters wei-e of a sufficiently nauseous flavor to warrant die belief that they were possessed of superior medicinal qualities, and it was pronounced by physician* as being a mineral spring of the greatest value. The owner was offered 20,000 dollars for the spring, and refused ; but since he has pulled out the decomposed bodies of three chickens, four rats, one dog, one cat, and a black snake, he will take half that amount. Strange to say, he has abandoned his former idea of erecting a six-story hotel ; and what is equally as si range the mineral flavor has entirely disappeared from the water. A lady who has left a furnished house in* the suburbs of Paris was anxious to know whether the furniture was safe, and wrote to the Mayor of the Arrondissement on the subject. She received a reply to the effect that her house has not been damaged or the furniture touched, and that on her forwarding i:6O to the Mayor he would send the furniture to her in England. The lady thereupon wrote and asked what the £6O was for. The answer came : "It is the share cf the indemnity that will have to be paid by every .English person ha\ ing property in France."