THE NEWLY CREATED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 164, 28 June 1911, Page 4

THE NEWLY CREATED.

Commenting on the list of Coronation honours, the “Sydney Morning Herald” editorially remarks that the rather unusual dignity of a colonial baronetcy conferred on Sir Joseph Ward is doubtless a recognition. of the prominent part played by the New Zealand Premier in recent conferences, and of the alacrity of his colony in the matter of Imperial defence. But Sir Joseph is in any case one of the commanding figures of the colonial empire, and he has deserved his honour. Sir John Findlay has oeen the New Zealand Attorney-General for th last four or five years, and is a man of some mark m literature as well as politics. Sir James Carroll is a New Zealand veteran, who has survived from the ■latei’ days of the Balance Administration, and made his mark as an able defender of the interests of the Maori race. Several other New Zealanders of less prom inence are named in the list, ad altogether that little colony seem? to have, been specially well rewarded for her persistency in keeping herself before the Empire. Mr. Fisher joins the Privy Council, and no doubt that was the only dignity he felt open to accept. A leader of the Labour party bedecked with a title would in the eyes of his own followers at least be an absurd archaism, and the probability is that he would be relegated to a museum for extinct politicians.