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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2952, 26 November 1900, Page 3

Mr Oates’ motor car left Christchurch at 10 o’clock for Timaru via Leeston and Geraldine. He may stop at Temuka tonight. Sir John Hall has been in correspondence with the Christchurch A. and P. Society’s secretary, urging that the Society should as kthe Government to remove the restriction placed upon the shooting of seagulls on farms. This year, he says, the gulls have been more destructive in the lambing paddocks than he has ever known them before. In the lambing season they are and should be treated on the* farms as birds of prey. The Council of the Association decided to make representations to the Colonial Secretary on the subject. An Ancient Belief. —The ancients believed that rheumatism was the work of a demon within a man. Any one who has had an attack of sciatic or inflammatory rheumatism will agree that the infliction is demoniac enough to warrant the belief. It has never been claimed that Chamberlain’s Pain Balm will cast out demons, but it will cure rheumatism, and hundreds bear testimony to the truth of this statement. One application relieves the pain, and this quick rebel which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. For sale by Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Ld.). Washington society has been startled by the announcement that Alfred Vanderbilt, head of the Vanderbilt family, and said to be the richest man of his age in the world, whose father left him £10,000,000 unconditionally, has decided to enter the employ of the New York Central Railway, commencing at the foot of the ladder. The iiews came as a surprise to society, as hitherto young Vanderbilt was thought to be fonder of pleasure than work. For the acknowledged reason that it has not paid, the all-night tram service on the London North Metropolitan Tramway Company’s system has been suddenly stopped. On the other hand, the all-night trams suddenly introduced by the London County Council on its South London line have been extremely popular, and the traffic receipts, if not such as would pay a dividend, have at any rate secured the Council from loss. The receipts average £l6O a week. What is the “ Imperial idea ” ? “ What British Liberals understand by that idea is not the bouncing and bragging Imperialism of the man with the swelled head, who talks of the Empire as though it were a mere spoil of war and military parade, and magnifies himself like the fly on the wheel, which boasted that it kept the machinery in in motion. It is rather,” as Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has admirably said, “a. democratic Commonwealth of States united by common interest and common sentiment. agreeing to act in union for their common progress, whilst enjoying independence each in his own concerns.” Electricity has conferred innumerable benefits on mankind, but if it will—as Br Frederick Giegler, of Wurtiunberg, has discovered, —cure toothache, it will have n.'hieved a distinction which will, from the ■mint of view of the average man, outweigh almost every other advantage it has con■’erred on humanity. TUo method of application would seem to be exceedingly simple, and consists in merely putting the dcctrodes mi one side of the affected tooth md passing a weak current through it. This sends what are desciibod as “little darting arrow-like thrills ” through the roots of the teeth, and in a very short tone 1 lie pain ceases, while the microbes wh'ch have been irritating the nerves or leaving the bony structure are killed. In ill is 'way, it is said, a painless process of dentistry can be insured, and. as a rule, it is only necessary to keep up the electrical application from eight to twelve minutes, although in other cases as much as half an hour has been necessary to get a sufficient effect. Incidentally, the work of the dentist is considerably shortened, for the tooth of a nervous patient can be done in ten minutog when, the cavity has been made, absolutely panders by this means, which leaves no subsequent feeling of exhaustion or discomfort,,