this Year Another reduction in the index figure of the cost of living is announced in the official ''Labour Gazette." The average level of retail prices on May 1 is given as 128 per cent. above the level of July, 1914.
There has been a steady fall in prices since the 176 of November 1 (for the month of October), the figures being Oct. 1, 1920...170 Feb. 1, 1921...150 Nov. 1, Mer, 1, 1921...141 Dee. 1, April 1) 1921...133, Jan, 1, 1921165 May 1, 1921...128 In the year ending April 15, food prices decreased 28 per cent., in the United States, as compared with the previous year or rather that section of it between tsinan and. the capital, came into; operation on the ist instant, and the service has been maintained without-a hitch of any kind. Col. F. V. Holt, the foreign advisor 10 the Aeronautical Department, was a passenger on the first postal plane: to leave Peking. Letters sent from from Shanghai to northern towns and Peking have been found to arrive 10 hours sooner than' those sent by the ordinary mails, while the air section from Peking to the present destination of the service 's covered by the fast Vickers-Vimy machines in under two and a half hours. Neither in Tsinan_ or Shanghai is the Chinese Post Office's - venture receiving the support which is its due, People in Shanghai, stated an official at the Post Office in Szechuem Road, have apparently forgotten that the service has been in full swing for a week. extraordinary proposition was made a few days ago by a Chinese to an American businessman, who recently set up in Hongkong as an exporter. Reckoning perhaps, that he had a "greenhorn" to deal with, the Chinese approached the American at his office with the suggestion-that the latter should buy from him $15,000 worth of illicit opium, pointing out the handsome profits that could be derived from the deal. The proposition was heard with apparent interest, but a little later the shock of the native was great when he learned that a communication had been sent to the proper authorities for his apprehension. Tt needed only a few minutes for Chief Revenue Officer Watt to make his appearance and arrest the man. It is learned that the prisoner is being. subjected to an examination, the object of which is to make him reveal the whereabouts of the drug which formed the subject of his negotiations with the American.
We often see the lizard pop its head_out from its retreat.
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