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THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING

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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

там

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)

8. 1000. (1,8USI CREIEMENIN 7. Mown,NTED LEGIA

B. Listol-4003400

low. 10, B)

uf

I

Pre-Radio Bible Service,

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.

(London Express Savelcej.

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fabatur (4)

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