CORONATION HONOURS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 103, 21 June 1911, Page 8

CORONATION HONOURS.

SIR JOSEPH WARD MADE .V BARON ET. SEVERAL KNIGHTHOODS FOR NOW ZFA LAN I). 15v Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. London, June 19. The Coronation honours are announced. 1 olio wing arc among tl lo list:— Barcnetcy. Sir Joseph Ward, P.C., LL.D., K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of Now Zealand, lias been created a baronet. Peers. , Lord Kitchener lias been made a Knight of St. Patrick. The Earl of Crewe, a Marquis. Lords .Rosebery, Brassey, and CurKon, Earls of the United Kingdom. Privy Goiinciilnrs. Viscount Islington, Governor of New Zealand, and Mr. A. Fisher, Premier of Australia, are amongst the new Privy Councillors. Knighthoods. Lord Denman (the now GovcrnorGcnorai of Australia) and George Reid have been made Knights of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. The following have been created Knight Commanders: — Sir J. Fuller (Governor of Victoria). Hon. James Carroll (Acting-Pre-mier and Native Minister of New Zealand). Hon. Dr. Findlay (Attorney-General of Now Zealand). Mr. Hartmann W. Just, C.IL, C.M.G. (Assistant Under-Secretary of State far the Colonies). Captain Crcswell (Naval Director of Australia). General Hoad (Military Director of Australian Forces). The following colonials have been appointed Knights Bachelor:— His Honour Charles Major (Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific). Hon. A. It. Guinness (Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives) .• Hon. Walter Madden (Speaker of the Victorian Executive Council). His Honour Judge Williams, of New Zealand. And the Lord Mayor of Sydney. AD OPTIONAL HONOURS. London, June 20. The following were created Companions of St. Michael and St. George:—Dr. Barnett, Melbourne University; Colonel Robert Colima, V.D., 1.5.0., Comptroller and Audi-tor-General of New Zealand; Dr. Frederick Fitcbctt, Public Trustee: Mr. Hutson, Colonial Secretary of Fiji (ranking as a Magistrate of Queensland) ; Mr. Lionel Showel, Government Statist Smith Australia; and Mr." Wilson, Premier of Westralia. FURTHER DISTINCTIONS. London, Juno 20. A Knighthood has been conferred on Mr. George Alexander, the actor. Commanders of the Bath include Major Ross, tire investigator of sleeping sickness on the Congo, and Mr. Parsons, the inventor of the turbine. Grand Crosses of the Bath:—Admirals Fanshawo, Beaumont, Fawkes, and May. Companions of the Imperial Service Older'; Mr. Horatio Blow, Secretary for Public Works, New Zealand, and Mr. Edward Tregear, late of the Department of Labour. ADDITIONAL RECIPIENTS. (Received 21, 8.55 a.m.) London, June 20. Earls of the United Kingdom : Lcrd Lorebnrn, Lord Rosebery (the latter’s title to lie Earl of Midlothian), Field-Mai shal General Lord Methuen, General Sir William Nicholson. Viscounts of the United Kingdom. —Laid Knollys, Mon, Alexander Murray (Master of EHbnnk), Right Hon. A. Akers-Doublas. Barons:—Sir A. Acbmd-Hood, Mr L G. Ashton, Mi A. C. Corbett (Commoners). Privy Councillors:—Sir Rufus Isaas, Messrs Charles Fenwick, A. BonarLaw. V . Hayes Fisher (Commoners), S. Fredoi ick Pollock. Imperial Service Order:—Messrs William Davidson, Secretary, Public Works Department, Victoria"; E. Double, Solicitor-Genera! for Tasmania; Jones, Secretary Public Works Department, South Australia; Clayton Mason, Collector of Customs, Western Australia; Captain John Mackay, harbourmaster, Queensland.