BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

FOUR NEW PEERS. A LIBERAL LIST. AUSTRALIANS KNIGHTED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) LOXDON, June 26. In connection with the official celebration of His Majesty's birthday, the following are among the honours which have been gazetted:— PEERAGES. To be Peers of the Realm:— Rt. Hon. Sir ANTONY PATRICK MACDONNELL, late Under-Secretary for Ireland. Rt. Hon. GEORGE WHITELEY, late Liberal member for the Pudsey Division of Yorkshire, and the Chief Liberal Whip. Sir ANGUS HOLDEN, manufacturer, Liberal member for the Buckrose Division of Yorkshire from 1892 to 1900. Mr. JOKNT WYXFORD PHTLIPPS, Liberal member for Pembrokeshire. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Six new members of the Most Honorable Privy Council include:— Mr. ALFRED EMMOTT, Liberal member i for Oldham. Sir THOMAS WHTTTAKER, Liberal member for the Spen Valley Division of Yorkshire. BARONETCIES. 1 To be Baronets:— I Mr. H. E. KEARLEY, Liberal member j for Devonport. I Sir JOSEPH FRANCIS LEESE, Liberal ( I member for the Accrington Division i of Lancashire. ! Mr. ROBERT WILLIAM PERKS, hon. treasurer of the Liberal League, and Libera] member for the Louth Divi- j sion of Lincolnshire. | Mr. FRANCIS LAYLAND-BARRATT, i Liberal member for the Torquay j Division of Devonshire. Mr. JOHN HERBERT ROBERTS, Liberal member for the West Division l of Denbighshire. Mr. J- B. ROBIN SOX, South African mine owner. [Mr. THOS. BORTHWICK, frozen meat i importer. v - KNIGHTS. | To be Knights:— Mr. P. W. BUNTING, editor of the."Contemporary Review." ' Colonel DAVID BRUCE, investigator of sleeping sickness in Uganda. j K.CAS.Ct. Sir POPE COOPER, Chief Justice of 1 Queensland. | Mr. THOMAS BEXT, Premier of Vic-j toria. ) Ht. J. H. CARRUTHERS. ex-Premier ! of New South Wales. I And 23 others. KNIGHTS BACHELORS. To be Knights Bachelors:— Mr. Justice S. H. PARKER, of West Australia. " | Mr. HEXRY WEEDON, Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Mr. JUSTICE J. H. GORDON, of South Australia. ORDER OF MERIT. The Order of Merit has been conferred upon:— HEXRY JACKSON", Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge since 1906. C -M.G. To be Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St George:— Mr. N. J. MOORE, Premier of West Australia. It was announced last month that Sir Antony MacDormell had accepted a peerage on retiring from the Under-Secre-taryship for Ireland. He held that office for six years, and had previously acted as Acting-Chief Commissioner in Burmah, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, member of the Council of India, and acting-Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. From 1901, he was Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the North West Provinces, and Chief Commissioner of Oudh. Sir Geo. Whiteley retired from the House of Commons on a peerage three weeks ago. He was chief Liberal Whip and was formerly Patronage Secretary to the Treasury. Originally a Conservative, he became a Liberal owing to his objection to the Conservative Government's Agricultural Rating legislation. He has been an MP. for fifteen years. Sir Angus Holden is an old member of the. House of Commons, and has been a staunch Liberal supporter for many years. He is the owner of large woollen manufacturing works at Bradford, and is 74 years of age. Mr. John Wynford Philipps has been a member of the House for nearly twenty years. He is the son of Canon Sir Jas. Erasmus Philipps, twelfth Baronet, and is a lawyer by profession. He is 48 years of age. I One of the surprises of the list is the acceptance of a K.C.M.G.-ship by Mr. . Tom Bent, Premier of Victoria, who likes j to call himself "the bluff and hearty," i who prides himself on his democratic spirit, and who moulded himself and his ideas upon the late Mr. Seddon. I ■* .j I