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Show Town Made Famous by Oysters. The oyster season at Colchester, Kngland, was opened with quaint ceremonies. cere-monies. The mayor and corporation traversed the fishery grounds In a dredger and the mayor made the first haul of oysters. The mayor and corporation cor-poration then consumed gin and ginger-bread a custom which hns prevailed pre-vailed since the fishery was first opened under royal charter In the reign of Richard I. A telegram expressing ex-pressing dutiful devotion was sent to the king at n luncheon afterwards on Peewit island. The early Saxons so appreciated the Colchester fishery that ll.ey took three oyster knives for their arms, and this device still forms the arms of the county of Essex. The Colchester ll.hery lost all their continental con-tinental customers during the war, but tba British public consumed all that they could supply. They had most successful seasons, and were nbie to give 40,000 oyster? to military hospitals. |