LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10908, 12 November 1898, Page 5

LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

INTERESTING PAGEANT. SOME SUGGESTIVE EMBLEMS. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. London, November 10. The Lord Mayor's Show, yesterday, was oi a more than usually interesting character. The feature of the procession was a ship, armed with guns, and surrounded by figures representing Britannia and Columbia. The procession included British, Amen can, Indian, and colonial soldiers, Coolgardie and Kimberlev miners, and New South Wales mounted rifles. A British sailor carried the American en. sign, and an American sailor the British flag. A second car carried figures emblematical of the British line of communication between the Cape and Cairo. When the Lord Mayor arrived at the Law Courts, he was exhorted by the Chief Justice (Lord Russell), who spoke upon the recent. revelations of frauds in the city by unscrupulous company promoters, the undue inl.ation of values by extravagant advertising, the distribution of gifts to procure directors who did not represent either strength, business capacity, or experience. He recommended that these nefarious swindlers should be socially ostracised. Lord Russell added that creditors had, in the past seven years, through compulsory windings-up, lost' £8,000,000. Persons holding positions "of trust in companies should be compelled to disclose the fact when their own interests conflicted with those of the shareholders. <s*