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Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1898, Page 2

We have to thank the Registrar-General for the Statistics of the colony, being parts I and H. At Auckland on Monday Hone Toia and the other Maori prisoners were committed for trial on all the charges. President Ernger, in a cable message of sympathy with Mr Gladstone's family, says that Mr Gladstone's services to the Transvaal will never be forgotten. This is not surprising seeing that it was Mr Gladstone who practically gave the country back. We understand at the next meeting of the Borough Council a resolution will be proposed asking the police to take action to stop cyclists riding on (he footpaths. The Stipendiary Magistrate did not come down last night, as expected, and this morning Messrs Thynne and Fraser, J.'sP., occupied the Bench, and disposed of the small debt oases. Mr Greenfield opened the Assessment Court at I.SO. Mr Gladstone's will directs that hiwidow shall be interred in the same grave as himself. I< i- further directed that no laudatory inscription be placed on the tomb. Some of the peewee birds obtained from Australia by the Agricultural Department, and liberated on the East Coast in order to prey upon the insects which attack the trees in that part of the colony, are thriving famously. There are many references to Mr Glad' stone in the Russian newspapers, which are unanimous in paying homage to the deoeased statesman. The war craze in America has started a curious fashion, which is all the rage at present. This is the mounting of military buttons as hat pins for women and aa scarfpins for men. As the militia of each State has a different coat of arms, and many of the regiments have special emblems of their own, the range of choice is deoidedly wide. But the favourite is, oddly, the plainest— that worn by the West Point cadets, which is a plain gilt ball about half an inch in diameter. The collecting of these buttons, like stamps and coins, is another of the patriotic fads of the moment. Madame Albani, Madame Melba and Miss Ada Crossley have been engaged to sing at the Leeds Musical Festival: The bar entranoe to the Wanganui River is said to be in a bad state, and the Herald is urging the local Harbour Board, in the interests of th« trade of the port, to make and maintain a permanent bar channel. Mr Edward Bellamy, the famous American writer is dead. Arrangements are being made at Lloyds to inspect the refrigerating machinery and chambera o! frozen meat steamers before each outward voyage. On first thoughts, the business of a dentist among the natives of South Afrida, near the Zambesi, might seem to be a perilous one. But the journal called ' " The Dentist " says the dentist is looked upon by the natives as a kind man. They think that to have a tooth drawn in the approved style is almost a pleasure. They have been used to less refined methods. They are very patient, too, in waiting for him. Appointments are made two or three months ahead, owing to the immense area of the dentist's practice and the time spent in travelling. If a native goes " up " — " up " meaning anywhere between the coast line of South Africa and the Zambesi — with a racking toothache, says, in December, he may, if he is lucky, have an appointment for somewhere in March. The steamer Nile, which left' Westport for this port last Monday morning has not yet arrived, and the Collector of Customs at Nelson has bean asked to request the oaptains of steamers to look out for the Nile. She is most probably taking shelter.