BIRTHDAY HONOURS.
London, May 25. Included ameng the birthday honours are the following : Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, to be Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India.
Sir H. B. Loch to be a member of the Privy Council. Lord Play fair and the Eight Hon Jas. Stansfeld, M.P. for Halifax, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Mr Edward Fairfield,: C.M.G., Assistant Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office, Companion of the Bath. The Earl of Aberdeen and LieutenantColonel Sir Chas. B. H. Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlements, to be Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Walter Besant, novelist ; Henry Irving; Dr W. H. Russell, war correspondent ; and [Mr Lewis Morris, poet, to be Knights Bachelors. . Sir Thos. F. Buxton, recently appointed Governor of South Australia; Mr R. C. Baker, C.M.G., President of the South Austialian Legislative Council, and the Hon W. A. Zeal, President of the Victorian Legislative Council, to be Knights Commanders of St. Michael and, St. George. Mr J. A. Panton, Magistrate, Melbourne, and Mr J. S. O'Halloran, Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, to be Companions of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Snowdoh,. Mayor of Melbourne, and His Honor Chief Justice Onslow, of Western have been knighted. Sir John Palmer Abbott, Bart., Sydney, has been created a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. GeorgeMessrs Brunei (? Birrell) and Dunn, members of the House of Commons, have been created Baronets.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1213, 31 May 1895, Page 35
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