From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1962
Prince Charles has killed his first stag, it was reported. Reports from Balmoral, the Royal Family's Scottish summer home, said Prince Philip looked on while his son, using a normal hunting rifle, felled the stag with his first shot. Raymond Rowley, Vice-Chairman of the League against Cruel Sports, said the shooting was 'hardly in keeping' with the Queen's patronage of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals or Prince Philip's campaign for the preservation of wildlife.
But at Balmoral, a games-keeper remarked the Prince Charles' kill 'was quite an achievement for a young lad. He promises to be a first-class shot'.
Hong Kong was clearly a long way from being the financial hub that it is today; and reporting style on the matter was far more colourful. The following was written by the Post's financial correspondent:
'Very few brokers were sorry to see the end of last week on the Hongkong Stock Exchange. In fact, apart from Friday afternoon when the market tantalisingly burst into life as if to give brokers and investors something to think about over the weekend, it was the dreariest week in my memory.
By Thursday, the smiles engendered by the improved atmosphere in recent weeks had vanished. The day's turnover was less than $800,000. Neither buyers nor sellers bothered to put their names on the board, except in negligible numbers and the activities in the Trading Hall, varied as they were, had little to do with shares.
I was accused by a young friend of producing acres of platitudes in my column. Of course, I was not sure how far his cheek was extended longitudinally by his tongue, but nevertheless this provocation gave me cause to think. Now the share market is a very specialised field, and certain signs reveal certain tendencies and portend certain movements.