BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1467, 15 June 1912, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

FOUR NEW PEERAGES.

By Teloffmph-Presj Association-Copyright. London, Juno 13. The Birthday Honours include four peerages, - nine baronetcies, and twenty-five knighthoods The following aro the Australian honours :— KNIGHT GRAND CEOSS OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. lord Chelnisford, Governor of New South Wales. K.C.M.G. Sir William Portua Cullen, Knight Bachelor, Chief Justice of New South Wales, since Jannary, 1010, and Liouten-ant-Goyernor of the State. Mr. Hairy Newton Phillips Woollaston, C.M.G., LL.D., 1.5.0., tho first Comptrol-ler-General and Permanent Head of the Department of Trade and Customs of tho Commonwealth, who retired from tho publib service in 1911. KNIGHT BACHELOR. Hon. John James Duncan, a leading pastoralist and prominent legislator rf New South Wales. C.M.G. Mr. dairies Morris Woodford, Resident Commissioner in the British Solomon Islands, and formerly Acting-Consul and Deputy-Commissionor at Samoa. Mr. William Geoffrey Cahill, Commissioner of Police for Queensland since 1905, and for many years Under-Secretary to tho Department of Justice. Lieutenant-Colonel James Gordon Legge, Quartermaster-GcneTal of the Commonwealth Military Forces, and Third Military Member of the Board of Military Administration. (Reo. June 15, 0.25 a.m.) London, June 1-1. The following additional particulars of the Birthday Honours are available!— : . ■. peers. Field-Marshal Sir William Nicholson, G.C.8., K.C.8., formerly Chief of the General Staff of the Army, and Military Member of the Army Council since 1908. Sir Francis Channing, Bt., a well-knos-n agricultural, educational, and Labour reformer. Sir Thomas Borthwick, Bt., chairman and senior partner of Thomas Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., colonial morchants, ajid president of the Midlothian Liberal Association. . K.C.B. Sir James Bevan Edwards, K.C.M.G., a retired Lieutenant-General, commander of the troops in China, 1889-90. Lieut.-General Sir Edward Hutton, K.C.M.G., formerly Com'mander-in-Chief in-Australia. , 1.5.0. Mr. Donald Robertson, secretary of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department. Mr. John Stranohon, Surveyor-General of New Zealand.