The Lord Mayor's Show.
Though there are only four or five " Lord " Mayors in England, the only one who holds a show is the Lord Mayor of London. The office is a very oIJ one, the first Mayor of Lcji. don having been appointed in the year 1 189. The prefix of Lord was granted by King Edward 111. It was Sir John Norman who was the first Lord Mayor who went by 1 water to be 'ftworn in at Westminster, and instituted the show, and this was in the year 1453. The particulars of the last show, is as follows: — The installation of Sir John Voce Moore, Kt., as Lord Mayor of London, took place recently, and the procession to the Royal Courts of Justice prior to making the final declaration of office, generally known as the Lord Mayor's Show, was of a more than usually interesting character. The feature of the procession was a ship armed with guns surrounded by figures representing Britannia and Columbia.
The procession ineludqd British, American, Indian and Colonial soldiers, Coolgardie and Kimberley miners, and New South Wales Mounted Riflemen. A British -sailor carried the American ensign and an American sailor the British flag.
The second car carried figures emblematic of the British line of communication between the XDape and Cairo.
When the Lord Mayor arrived at the Law Courts, he was -exhorted by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Russell, of Killowen), who spoke upon the recent revelations of frauds in the city by unscrupulous company promoters —viz., the undue inflation <>f values by extravagant advertising, and the distribution of gifts to procure directors who did not represent either strength, business capacity or experience. He recommended that these nefarious swindlers be socially ostracised. His Lordship added that creditors had in the past seven years through compulsory windinga-up lost £8,000,* 000. Persons holding positions of trust-in companies should be compelled to declaro the fact when their own interests conflicted with those of the shareholders.' * ;'<■'
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Manawatu Herald, 15 November 1898, Page 2
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329The Lord Mayor's Show. Manawatu Herald, 15 November 1898, Page 2
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