Thos. Cook & Son, the Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, is now Tax average minimum of the theropen at 2 Foochow Road, where the mometer in the Settlement for the week basines of the firm in all ite depart-ending January 7 was 38:9° F., the ments be carried on. average maximum 507° F., and the mean 44°8° F., compared with 33°°6 F., Tue Chinese Engineering & Mining 47-0° F., and 40:3" F., respectively, Ao., Ld. announces that the total out-in the corresponding week of 1910. pat of the Company's three mines for The rainfall during the week was ni? the week ending December 31 amounted compared with 0.42 inches, and twn days. to 27,939.12 tons, and the sales doring in the corresponding weeks of 1910, the period, to 22,821.93 tons. and an average of 0.32!inches and Sin Havillandand Lady de Sanemarez days for the Inst two day retarned to Shapgbai from Hongkong Ix some excavations in " private by the English mail on Monday. His house at Pompeii the petrified corpse Lordehip will resume the trial of the of a woman has recently been found, case of Ts. The New Engineer-with numerous of high value in ing & Shipbuilding Works to-day.
It is supposed that the Jopcr Rats H, Thayer, of the surprised and stifled by the United States Court for China, left inders from Vesuvius, when Shanghai on Saturdsy night by the Pompeii was destroyed, at the moment steamer Poyang for Hankow, en route when she was fleeing with all her for-for Pekivy. Hi expected tune. The gems, says the correspondent to return to the Settlement about of the "Daily Express," include two month hence. earrings, each composed of twenty-one Tux agitation for the redaction of pearls, These are the finest jewellery rents appeared to have subsided on Mon-ever found at Pompeii, day, the Chinese shop-keepers Two Chinese were charged at the down their shutters as usual. According Mixed Court yesterday with refusing to to ramours in native circles the com-pay their legal faro in tram-car No. 17, paign is merely deferred until after between Nanking Road and the Garden
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