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SOUL BERANO NOTICES,

GENERAL NEWS,"

Spurious Notes In Japan. The Bank of Korea has found that some of its twenty sen notes have been "frandolenty 'altered into fifty sen notes and bas there- fore decided to withdraw all of them now in circulation. The Bank will hereafter couse to issüs 20 ser notes.

Awarded the D. S. 0. Majro (eot. Lieut Col) E. A. Booke, B. E. has been awarded the D.S.0. for services in the field Major Books will be re membered here sa Osptain B. E. about 1911, when bis services with the 8.0.0. cricket sloven proved very valuable.—Bingapore Free Freas

Going to Japas,

By the Dutch mail steamer leaving Singapore about April 11, Sir Edward Brookman, K.Ü. | M.G., and Lady Brockman are to go to Yokohama to spend a holiday in Japan, and the Rev. Mr. Nigle, Principal of the Anglo Chinese School, in bound to San| Francisco,

Mr.

Trade Trip to the East. The Attorney-General, Hall, is to combine business with pleasure on bis trip to Japan. Re will leave in the near future says the Sidney Korning News. At a meeting of the Usbinet it was de- cided to commission Mr. Hall to inquire into the general opera tions of the Trade Commissioner-

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The shell case which held the first shot fired by American artil- -leryman on the Western front .... was presented to President Wil- son on December 3 by a party of Congressmen who recently made an 'unofficial visit to the battle- Helds. Esch member of the party received a shell case from the first bombardment. The first 200 WES sved for President Wilson, the second for General Pershing, the third for General Sibert, and those fired afterwards were dis tributed among the party. Formerly Governor of Cochis Chias.

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COST OF LIVING.

man who played a prominent part How it Increases in the East. in Far Eastern politics about two

the fact that by exercising the most careful есовому

she contrived to save two yan out month, making no allowance for of an income of yan fifty per sickness or socidents. This she decades ago. When he retired The Far Eastern peoples, who was able to do because her parents from the Governorship of Cochin are sometimes accused of a lack helped clothe the children and Chins he settled down in France, of sympathy with the war sima because she and her husband but when trouble arose between and war-time movements of the saved their own garments by France and Siam, he was specially Occident, can at least lay claim to staying at home. sans out to settle matters and sign a community of interests when

In the commercial centers in

the treaty by which Siam bad to the cost of maintaining a bare China what might be called the cede a large part of her territory existence is discussed, and the clerical claas is suffering unduly to France, and be had to stay prees, in many languages, from from a some weeks in Singapore waiting. Singapore to Siberia, seems to be conditions which renders ita combination of evil for a French man-of-war to diecasting this topic with more existence precarions. The stand convey him to Bangkok. than piling interest Not only rd of living in cities like Shang- Dairying and Child Labour, has the foreign resident to etrug hai and Tientein has gone up Mr. John Hackett, of the Chil-gle to maintain his high estate in 100 per cent, in ten years. Over dren's Protection Society,recently the small sad exclusive com seas trade is dull on account of asked Mr. Piddington, K.O., the manities which fringe the con the wez and internal trade is Interstate Commissioner at pre-tinent Asia and the abores of the uncertain on account of perpetual, sent investigating charges "for various ielande, bat the native revolation. dairy prodaos, to hear evidence populations also are feeling the trained, English-speaking, salari

The number of regarding child labour on dairy pinch and are feeling it justled men has increased enormously farms, sys the Sydney Evening where the populations of the in a few years and the demand News. Mr. Piddington, sitting Western nations are feeling, it. for them has decreased noticeably atthe Commonwealth Bank, made Standards of living are going op, during the past year or 80. reference to the matter, which, he prices of importe-once luxuries Chinese vernacular paper recently asid, was only incidental to his but now beasseities have already commented upon this situation investigation of prices. There- gone up, and the salaries of the by cffering to supply any "Dum- fore, could only be treated at the respectable middle class folk, ber of men who could have com Commission in piecemeal particularly of the professional minded a salary of $150 a month feabion. He could not say 81 small fry, are joat where they three years ago, at 350 a month. what stage or in what form the were, and are even on the decline This in spite of the fact that it avidence would be taken. If Mr.in some centres. Hackett forwarded data be would

costa boat thirty per cent, mors have it forwarded to the Federal from all quarters of the East the years ago. Even

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