ECHOES FROM TEE CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1290, 5 October 1880, Page 3

ECHOES FROM TEE CAFE.

The following Fchoes were unavoidablyheld over on Saturday ; — The greatest excitement prevailed throughout the city on Tuesday, when it became known that » respectable, hard- j working man had been murdered in cold blood by a native of the Naw Hebrides. There is no need forme to give particulars of the outrage, as they appeared fully in the Waikato Times on Thursday. We have been Buffering 1 from bazaars lately. Last week there was a Primitive Methodist Bazaar held in one of the tumble-down old shanties next the Herald office. It wa3 opened by Mr. Hurst, the bashful and unassuming member for ' ity West. A nice man to open a Primitive Methodist Bazaar ! By the way, where was Mr. Goldie, who is a great talker and belongs to the church, that he was not invited to perform the opening ceremony ? The various articles for sale were none too good for the old shanty in which they were exhibited, and as for the ladies who attended the stalls, truly "Solomon in in all his glory was not arrayed like one ofthe^e." This week we have had a Presbyterian Bazaar, opened by His Worship, the Mayor, in what used to be Grant and Morton's auction mart. It is certainly a great improvement on that held last wtek, in the place in which it is held, the goods offered for sale, and the gentleman who opened it. So " Molcsworth-strefit " is not yet satufied about the position of the windguage at Wellington. 1 will endeavor to make myself intelligible. Suppose there is a lari?e three-htoiey building and that a wind- gunge in erected close to it on the south side. There may be a perfect gale blowing from the north, but, the windguage being sheltered by th** house, it cannot give the true velocity of the wind as it would do if it were even a couple of hundred yards away from the house. So it is with the wind-guage at Wellington. It is so close to tlie everlasting hills which Bhelter it that it does not register anything like as much velocity as it would if it were placed on the top of the Government Buildings, though they are at a much lower level. Thus " Moles worth-street " will see that he is wrong in his conclusion that the hills shelter Wellington as much as they do the wind«guage, for th.3 latter is so close to them that it is protected, while the city being further away receives the full force of the wind which comes down the gorges and gullies between the bills The report of Mr Habons, InspectorGeneral of Schools, on the Industrial Home in Howe-street, has been received. It is a very voluminous and carefully prepared document, and ought to be read bv everyone taking an interest in the Home. While stating: that the charges of groshly improper conduct, brought against the master, ' were not substantiated, Mr H.iben.s reports that both master and matron are incompetent, and recommends that they be discharged. This is, as nearly as possible, the verdict of the general public, and I have no hesitation in saying that Mr Habens's report will give satisfaction to everyone, with the exception of some of the members of the Executive Committee, the master and matron, and their personal friends. It is truly marvellous to observe the confidence which some of the Executive Committee placed in the master, taking his mere statement as sufficient rebutting evilence in all charges brought against the matron or himself. Knowing Mr Habens, I felt sure hi.s report would give satisfaction, and so I believe it has. St. Mungo.

Ladies first appeared in court in the time of -»nne of Brittany wife of Charles VI II. and Louis X ll. , kings »f France. An Irish Landlord asked one of his tenants the other day how he was getting on, this had year. "Well yer honour, we're doing "nicely with the relafe male." ' ' Ah, hut what will yon do next year, supposing there is no relief meal ?" "B^orro, yer honour, we're hoping the Lord°may send us another bad sayson." — Vanity Fair. It turns out that Dr. Tanner, is an Englishman, hailing from Tunbndge Wslls, in Kent. For all this, however, he receives scant mercy at the hands, or rather pens of his British critics. We have been carefully reading the opinions of a number of the'best English papers on the great fast, and, with very few exceptions,they ridicule the idea that it was faithfully accomplished. The medical periodicals are especially sceptical, and they ought to be the best authority. Witness the following from the Bntuh Medical Journal:— The performances of Mr. Tanner, of Minnesota, who began with what is described as a " forty day s fast" in New York, on June 28tb, are attracting great public interest, but are regarded with complete incredulity in medical circles. When he arrived in New York the members of the profession, especially the members of the NeurologiCcal Society of New York, expressed their willingness to superintend the arrangements of his so-called "fast," provided that he allowed them to take the precautions which they considered necessary to prevent deception. These,, however, he rejected, according to the New York Jfrdicnl Record, as ' ' too exacting. " Under these circumstances he resorted to less exacting persons as his supervisors, and placed himself in the hands of irregular or ' ' eclectic physicians. It is unfortunate that, under present circumstances, the results will probably not be accepted by scientific men,