THE CHAIRMAN OF THE "STAR" LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 7

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE "STAR" LIFE.

I Tub Fermanagh Reporter has the following : —The nursery story of Dick Whittiiigton perhaps never had a better illustration than that of William McArthur, the boy apprentice of TCiiniskillen,. now Member of Parliament for Lambeth and Lord Mayor of London. Over fifty years ago William McArthur was apprenticed to good Hugh Copeland, who then occupied the thatched two-storey house of the Diamond, where Mr. P. Martin at present lives. The young lad was a Methodist, and a good Methodist, and having been promoted from caretaker of the preacher's horse to being caudle-snuffer of the old thatched barn-preaching-house in Wesley-street, was one of the congregation that assembled in the Town-hall for worship while the then new preachinghouse was being built in Wesley-street. In the very room where the young apprentice, William McArthur, knelt to pray fifty years ago, he, now Lord Mayor of London, stood to receive the welcome and respect of the citizens of Enuiskillen. The modest youth of fifty years ago has now the right to remain in the royal presence covered, his privileges greater than those of a peer of the realm; and he has an emperor's power within "the City." All the wealth which has become his, all the honours which his former fellow-citizens of Deny and his present fellow-citizens of the world's metropolis have given him, have been obtained by industry, ability, perseverance, nobility, and stainless reputation. He is greater than rank can make him—he is one of nature's self-made men.