NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11931, 3 January 1901, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

j Press Association—By Telcgraph-Copyrighl. j LONDON, December 31. (Received Jan. 1, fit 12.30 p.m.) Knighthoods 'have been conferred on Mr ffirapi Si Maxim (of Maxim gun fame) and. Mr Henry John Miller (Speaker- of the Legislative Council of New Zealand). \ Grand Crosses of, the Bath have been awarded to Sjr Alfred Milner (Governor of Cape Colony), Lord Justice '• Romer (President of the Hospitals Commission), Sir Francis Mowat (Permanent Secretary of the British Treasury).' THE COMMONWEALTH HONOURS. SYDNEY, January 1. (Received Jan. 1, at 12.30 a.m.) Lord Hopetoun has received a cable announcing the following federal honours:— Privy Councillors: Mr Edmund Barton, Q.C., and Sir Samuel Griffith, Chief Justice of Queensland. G.C.M.G.: Sir John Forrest'(Western Australia). . K.C.MIG.'s: Mr J. R. Dickson (Queensland), Mr William M'Millan (Sydney), Mr J. H. Symon, Q.C. (South Australia). ' Knight Bachelor: Dr j. H. Quick, of Bendigo, Victoria. [The above have all been prominent Federalists, and have sat in one or other of the Federal Conventions.] C.M.G.'s: Mr R. R. Garran, of Sydney, who has written several works on const,itntional questions and "assisted ' at-the conventions; Mr E. G. Blackmore, Clerk of the South Australian Parliament; :