NEW YEAR HONORS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONORS

TWO VACANCIES CREATED IN , ' COMMONS.

NEW KNIGHT DIES BEFORE . : LIST.ISSUED. .

EMPIR E BUILDER REWARDED

BY KING. «*

(United Press Assn.-Copyright.) LONDON. Jan. 3.

The peerages conferred on Colonel Gibbs and Sir Gerald Strickland, cause vacancies in the Parliamentary representation of West Bristol and Lancaster, and by-elections will he necessary. Colonel- Gibbs 1 , a Conservative, ban a majority of over 17,000 over bis Labor opponent at the last general election, and"at Lancaster Sir Gerald Strickland defeated a ..Liberal bv 4000, and a Lahorite by over .9000 in a three-cornered contest; Pathetic interest attaches ;to the announcement in the- honors list that a knighthood had been conferred on Alderman Dr. James Robinson, formerly Lord Mayor of : Cardiff . Dr. Robinson idied on Tuesday last at -the acre of 60. He had given devoted service l to - local affairs, and in particular was keenly interested m health matters. His name was retained in the honors list, as an act or, ''consideration for his widow, who, an the grant of letters patent, will become Lady Robinson. ’ The Dailv Chronicle says Mr. James Caitd, who is made A baronet for public and philanthropic- services, recently contributed anonymously £IOO,OOO towards ' securing for the nation the MaePherson collection ol maritime prints, and towards the restoration of Nelson’s ships,, the nagship Victory, and her sister ship the Implacable. The MaePherson. collection contains 12,000 books, prints, paintings, and atlases, and is said to lie the only complete, sea history ol the English-speaking race. Sir Frederick Lugard’s peerage is regarded by the press as the crown of a oreat career as an Empire builder and administrator in tropical Africa, which began in 1888, when lie commanded a volunteer I dree m Xvasaland against, an Arab slave trader. Later lie organised the administration of Uganda, and su isequentlv. a-s High Commissioner in 'Vest Africa, effectively occupied and settled Northern Nigeria with a minimum of fighting. He became. Gover-nor-General of the two which he amalgamated in 1912. 1 ollowing a short period as Governor ol Hongkong he retired seven years later" His unrivalled knowledge ol African native questions highly qualified him for Ins position as a British member of the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, which lie has held since 1922. Scholarship, art, music and medicine are well represented in the boners’ list, and two journalists receive knighthoods.—British Official V >reless.