Immigration is causing no end of discussion, It is vital for Canada, and she is looking to this to improve trade, open up vacant lanas, and thus finally to provide traffic on the railways owned by the State which will do away with deficits and make them pay. The problem is to secure the right kind of immigrant. The British are preferred but the suitable ones are not numerous, and Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa are after them too. The probability is that Some scheme of ce-operation between the Dominion Government, the Provincial Legislatures, the Canadian Railways, and the Tap "Hochi" says that there has been a marked increase of late in the number of suicides in Japan. According to investigations made by the Statistical Department, of the Metropolitan Police, during the last year there were 247 suicides by strangulation in Tokio and district, 269 by drowning, 77 by harakiri, 264 by poisoning, and 121 on the railway track. The causes of these suicides are multifarious, the chief among them being disappointment in love, divorce, sickness, family discord and difficulty of living. Men and women between 20 and 30 years of age constitute the largest proportion of the suicides.
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