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CORPORATION
thal
ORDINARY YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the Ordinary Yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Cor- poration will be held at the Hend Ofee of the Corporas Cen- tion, 1, Queen's Road
tral, Hong Kong, on Friday, the 13th ly of March, 1959, at Noon for the purpose of receiving
and
THE CHINA MAIL, · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1959.
CELEBRITY PAGE
THE INSISTED:
QUEEN
RULES
COME FIRST
HEN Prince Philip left London Airport, on the start of his round-the-world trip, nearly all the members of his family were But there was one noticeable there to see him off. absentee from the tarmac farewell party-the Prince of Wales.
William
Hickey
The only woman tu
play Hamlet ace Sarah Bernhardt, she nineed her own production in 1958 at the age of €3.
"I don't know how I did it but I had a feeling I had to play the role," she told one.
Her Jellow Homlets Were declaiming on all sides.
Nine times
There was Micheal MacLjany moir, the Irish actor, who has played Hamlet alac limes.
My dear fellow," he said. "One the most fineter things happened when played the Instead of waving goodbye to his father, he was back in the Balkan Slates.
" was in the middle of my at his desk at Cheam School, on the first day of the new death scene. I had just said The rest is silence when un term..
the encrrcus rat walked on to stage and stood looking at me.
I can now
disclose that the young Prince fully expected to be at the airport. It was only at the last minute that the Queen refused to give her permission.
A
Prince Philip had suggested that it might be possible for the Prince of Wales to be exented morning school on Tuesday so that he could go to the airport. Not matralle his son gave wholehearted support to the idez,
But the Queen's final word was, that the school rules must come first. If other boys hid to be at the school, she said. so had Charles, And there was no appen),
So a very disappointed Heir to the Throne was put
on the train to Newbury the day before his father left.
GENEROSITY
Considering Master
the reports of the Directora and of the Auditors and the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet for the year ended 31st December. 1968, and fo the election of Direc- tors
of und appointment Auditors.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from Friday. the 27th day of February to Friday, the 13th day of March, 1959, thoth days in- clusiven during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board, MICHAEL W. TURNER Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 9th January, 1959.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice to Shareholders
18 NOTRE
HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixty-sixth Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held on Thursday, the 12th day of March, 1959, at the Company's Registered Oftre, 4th Flour. P. & 0, Building, for the transaction of the business of an Ordinary General Meet ing including the following:-
11 a.m.
at
MARGARET
FODT, Foot,
I'm sure it was a craie,"
Rex
Another Hamlet, 1940 vintage, was Alre Clunck He repinces Harrison in "My Fate Lady" later this month, "Right now I'm trying to learn these wretched sngs," he said.
And, of course, there was the
treet Hamlet them all, Mickael Redgrave. He played the role n month ago in Moscover and mone of the Hamlets could top that.
Jewels,
her hobby
ON
the
cars
OLGA DETERDING GOES BACK
HEAR that oil, heiress Olga
Deterding (right) has gone back to work as an unpaid nurse at Dr Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in French Equatorial Africa.
Thirty-one-year-old
Miss Deterding has a personal fortune of £3,000,000 and expectations under various trusts of a further £10,000,000.
Two years ago she gave up a life of luxury to live in a cell-like room in the gruelling jungle heat.
After a year, however, she left and entered a Nairobi hospital for A minor operation. Since then she has bobbed un shark-fishing in Mauritius, announcing in Johannesburg that she wanted to nurse rebels in Cuba, and
Castro's with travelling in Europe.
Hut a few days ago she returned to the Schweitzer colony at Lambarene--the place she once described as "the only real- ly Christian village in the world.”
☆
Addition to the curriculum strictly limited to boys of Scottish descent - at Eton: bagpipe classes. A notice tells the boys that it takes only nine months to become "fairly proficient."
*
Lord Goddard
in the 'dock'
years
69
Lord
Truscott and
Lady "Help yourself," said landlord Helen Charles Farrow, in his Holland Sircet, Kensington, bar.
Donla
and Truscoit
Nurse Lightbody, who was nanny, to the Prince of Wales and Prin- cess Anne.
DEFEAT
a defeat
for
Anci pretty Miss Janet Itenderson, from Victoria, British Columbia, out on her Crst Sunday evening in London, pulled herself a half-pist,
REPORT
She was astonished. The beer the Royal Navy. The now handles in this pub are on the of the customers' side of the bar. 25 years home base secretary
to be Canada was never like 1 s.
George
Charlotte clutched her
MOST unusual Jewellery FTER more than Bies bouquet of duffcells and
have scen! twin A as a High Court Judge und Missions to Seamen is perhaps littl more nightly
silver Buccitas which glinted 12
Chicf soldler, Major-General than is usual as she told her
Said the landlord: "I found hushud minutes
in the
sunlight Justice, Lord Goddard will find Blacker. London of Sir Hugh
after the
beer- of Cyprus, lost exremony: "I shall never the Clavernog
An effcial said: "It's just one the customers liked the of Philippine himself in the dock shurtly. stop
their side.
And I of those things. We interviewed handles on a3 her clothes when her Deven you racing. You must
vocalist Teresita de Alba, go en
This "deck" will be in the a number of naval officers but make a bigger proat this way, shire pottage was burned down and on and on. You must drive
Spanish-born Teresita in here sunshine off Ecuador, where he Major-General Blacker had the you know.' recently. Bul neighb. urs in
unt you get to the top."
to sing in enburel.
will submit himself willingly as best administrative experience the village of Oakford have
a prisoner at the bar for the and rallied round with gifts - and
Nermally she wears her jet crossing the line ceremony. she now has # replenished
black hair her waist. For wardrobe.
her London appearance she has had t
just below shoulder length,
She tells me: "Thanks to the generosity of friends and people I only know slightly, I now have
more and better quality clothes
than ever before."
years,
bliss Foot, who gives her age as over 21 and under 60" has
ved in Oakhurd ter six Although she rented the collage, she has spent nearly every night in brightly painted gipsy gmunds. She Caravan in the was in the varavan at the time of the fire.
Champagne from silver cups
N her pockel: # miniaturs racing car. On her hand: a plain gold band to replace her nine-stune diamond engagement ring. And SD 20-year-old Charlotte Lyon became the wife of racing driver Michael Taylor, the man who is tipped as most likely to drive to the front when Surling Moss and Tony Brooks retre
new
Mercedes
Successor
Taylor was told by Hawthorn that he just before his death should try to be his successor,
And Hawtheth suld have been
a guest at the wedding.
It was a quiet title ceremony at Cast Hall. A mere handful of close 4: Inds attended.
Only Charlotte's mother, Mrs to was present Anne Tapley, represent the uncus Hambro baking family, of which she is a member.
Charlotte said sadly after- wards: "These days I see only a few members of the family,"
was different at the couple's Belgravia mews Bal Racing drivers roared up in their cars to celebrate.-
It
Among the 100 guests packed into the flal were Roy Salvadori, Richard Murdock and his wife, Colin Chapman, and
-butante Trasa Minc.
They dark champagne from silver cups-racing Trophies, of
Course.
A CAST FULL OF HAMLETS
QHAKESPEARE sald it in "Hamlet": "Frailty thy nome is woman." But Jast an 8-year-old actress work
The bridegroom's present to his wife: an Aston Martin. And he received a 300 S1, from his father, Henry prove him wrozz. She same, was last minute with a handful of other actors Taylor. It
who have played Hamlet, to the surprise, delivered on the wed- dirs day.
Saville Theatie where n Hamlet exhibition opened recently.
And as Esme Berlaker, slim, upright figure, was the hardest Hamlet of them
What
it fel docs
like to 53 5000 (1 To receive and considerarry a racing driver
after the death of Mike Haw- tharn?
the Reports of the Direc-
tors and of the Auditors, and the Profit and Losa Account for the year ended
31at December
1958, and the Balance Sheet as at that date.
(2) To approve the Dividend.
(3) To elect Directors,
(4) To appoint Auditors.
The Register of Members
will be closed from Monday,
P&O
R.M.S. "CORFU"
the 2nd of March, to Thura- | SAILS:
day, the 12th of March, 1959,
both days clusive.
By Order of the Bourd,
F. II. FELL,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 12th Feb., 1959.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"LAERTES"
Dainaged corto ex 'this Vedeo! will De surveyed by More Wood de Browne at Holl's Whart from 36 aru, on February 10 AND*17, 1950, and
NOTICE TO PASSENGERS
BAGGAGE:
all.
Friday, 13th February, at 5.00 p.m. for the UNITED KINGDOM, `via Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden and Port Said. Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown No. 2 GATE. CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, by Noon on Thursday, 12th February.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Company's Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.
commgnes are requested to have | EMBARKATION: Phasengers should embark between
their representallymś prevent during
the survey.
DUTTERFIELD a AWIRE,
Hongkong, Tebruary 12, 1968.
2.80 and 4.00 p.m. on 18th February, 1959.
Sabject to alteration with or without notice
<'ui
th
in the
on a
the
most
pleasing SIR
Com- Land
personality."
General Blaker will start his Lord Goddard sailed 20,000-ten liner Reina del Mar new job on March 21, the day after he relinquishes his pest os Lima, for Callao, near
Chief-of-Staft to the round trip lasting two months.
mander-in-Chief of UK. He told the shipping
com- Joaquin Monet. He is a cousin pany that he has no hesitation of the Duke of Vista Alegre and in standing. a trial that cads camer Spanish vice-consul in with a ducking in the ship's Shanghat.
Her husband
is 44-year-old
peol
will
He used to be in insurance, Lord Goddard is 82. I was Now he is her business manager.
told that Neptune Her hobby; collecting jewel- "treat his lordship gently, and tery. The other day she sat and that if he so desires he will be admired a £1,000 diamond ring lowered smoothly into the pool." on her finger, "I wonder what Jewellery I shall get in Londen," she said.
Among the other passengera on the trip will be last year's Lord Mayor of London Sir
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13
By Air
Laor. p.71.
Formosa, p
awalt, p.in.
U.S.A., Canada, 6 p.rA.
Africa, Great Britain & Europe,
p.in.
Fotoca.
Court barber
a woman
WINSTON'S HISTORY -FILM PLAN
SIR
WILLIAM
the
WALTON,
•BY THE WAY
By Beachcomber
THE
stat
machino which suya "Thank you" when you buy a stamp is only the thin end of a promising wedge.
Tapo- recorders inside machines can do better than that. A man buying a platform ticket will soon be asked how his family 1, "And please give my love to your niece, and tell her that Sibbo removes gravy- staing from
umbrellas." And what fun it will be to hear an election address by your favourite polllelan when you buy: a pocket of elgarettes. What About a slot machine which will play "In a Monastery Garden," exudo n smell of roses, and give hustructions, on how to mend The Ormburst Self- Revolving Stainless Hard-Dial Carpet-Beuter?
A weighty ruling
Me salu hts task was to deride telether a ponunt of sugar was a meal or refreshment under the Act a rather strange task for a Recorder.
MR
JUSTICE
(Provincial papet.) COCKLE. M CARROT
recently taid down that, though a
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kipper, if consumed in a shop on a Sunday, is a ment, a bag of flour is refreshment. There-. fore a pound of sugar
pur- chased on a Sunday, I used on that day a substitute for sunflower seed to catch mice, 15 a meul (for mjer), but it caten off the premises on the same day by a tan being it refreshment
In passing
XPERTS" have discovered that chlidren are eating too much, No doubt they will soon be taught to regard a mest As a chemical formula, and will talk the jargon of the grown- ups. The psychiatrists, from whom nothing preposterous is hidden, say that children eat too much because of a feeling of inaccurity, or a lack of parental affection. As one who was a very happy child I can tell these grotesque Prodnoses that, like all my little friends, I over-ate whenever I got the chance. What prompted me was not some cork, sceret sorrow in the depths of my parn-subliminai being-consckness, but greed, sheer greed. When I was caught stealing Jam from store- cupboard it never occurred to me to plead that the Boer War that Jund gut on my nerves, or my father had spoken crossly
iu mc.
Planning ahead
AN unused fourpenny Ceylon stamp of 1867 has been sold for £1,450. If their elders can
the discourage
from young
who lives permanently on writing letters, In 100 years' lovely Island of Ischia, time there ought to be a fortune
In the Bay of Naples, slipped in unused 1950 stamps, and a quietly into London and willwave 31-year-old Argentinian
his
up (because it wife, will stay for a month.
DROPPED
Is upstairs In Bond Street) to have
a quick haircut [Topper's.
the nt He Is in London for
negotiations which are going on
of
| island.
prosperity for the
London Express Service,
CROSSWORD
Speaking
runs into four
to
I needed the trim anyway to im Sir Winston Churchill's but it was 1 special visit, great Eternry work, "A History
English Because
the published they
the of will of Mr Charles Abram- Peoples," which
volumes. Topper. who died last October, Eged 74, after 40 years of cutting Sir William, who is 50, hos the hair of men ke Prince Philip, Mr Harold Macmillan. been asked to provide the music. the Duke of Windsor, Aly The whole thing is still in Takistan, Aden, Africa, Egypt, Gmat Britain, Europe, 6 pm.
Khan, Earl Mountbatten. Me the embryo
stage at the Philippines. Duteli Now Gülsen, ¤| Nubar Gulbenkian.
moment," said Sir William,
Thailand, Laos, Burma,
India,
Vietnam, Cambodia, a pun. Formosa, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, 5 p.m.
BIBLE THOL GATE
TOR TORNA
Charles Topper, Court hair- dresser, left the surprising sum
"I believe it is going to be of £637 gross (net £324). And made into a scries of television yet right up to his death he was flms. But nothing is definite. cutting the hair of his notable I hope I' and cut in the next clients, and running an active four weeks. barber's. shop,
越
There was another surprise SPLIT RISK
the will.
He left the
whole business to his 60-year-
old wife, Mrs Jennlo Topper. WHEN Lady Shawcross I wanted to see what difference
that
it
Happy is the man Indla Pakistan Middle East; findeth wisdom
and the man that getteth under. standing.-Proverbe 3:13.
No panic or disease nor misfortune can take your store of wisdom and under-
Philippines. 6 pim
By Burtaro Philippines. Indo-China, France (Cyora Parecin via Marellen),
D.IN.
Macon, à pun,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14
By Air
China, People's Republic, i am.
climbed out of ப
not there
Roac
10
ade having the Court Comet in New York she was barbers, for Princes and Prime pleasantly surprised to find that
Sir Bartley was Ministers run by a LADY.
"I'm not changing it a scrap," greet her,.. said Mra Topper.
Twenty
* *
minutes later Sr Hartley arrived in a Boeing jet. They travelled separately, explained Sir Hartley, "because
standing. You can take it HELP-YOURSELF 3 had the foolish idea.
Thailand. nalaya, Indonezia, Cay-with you, too.
ion, B a.m.
Japan, 10 am.
Australia, New Zealand, Noor.
Philippines, 1 b.m.
Across
Outstanding. (D)
TA
D. Christmas, 207, (8)
10. Consuma (B)
11. London borough.
10. Seabird. (4)
(9)
14. Kina. (4)
16. Unusual Co. Biosple, (4)
10. Irish, (4)
21. Scrub. (8)
22. The normal good score. (B)
23. The furthest point. (5)
24. Boolmaker. (4) 25. Placod. (B). 20. Without work; (4)
DONO
1. leor tina (ansg.). (D)
Undecided. (4)_ 1. Comes gradually
(0, 3)
to 40
end.
Wont tato D ENTERIJ
HOME LALUI
Grain. (9)
3. Browne (4)
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Cincinnati, Ohio.
splitting the risk. We have three WENT to the most revolu- children, you know
(aged five tionary pub in England last to 12)." weck. You pull your own beer.
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