BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 116, 22 June 1914, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

THE LIST GAZETTED.

HONOUR FOR COLONIALS.

LORD KITCHENER'S EARLDOM.

' MAYOR OK AUCKLAND DECORATED.

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright,

(Received June 22, I p.m.) , • • LONDON, June 21. The birthday honours have been gazetted and they include the followi»K: PEERS. . Four new peerages have been granted, and they include:— Mr Justice Cozens Hardy. Sir Edgar Vincent. Lord Kitchener receives an earldom.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS. There are four new Privy Councillors, including:— ' The Rt. Hon. Joseph Cook, Federal fri the Minister. Mr H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary tinder-Secretary to tl(e War Oflice. Mr Ellis Jones Griffith, K.C., UnderSecretary of State to , the Home Department. .'. . iVi - BARONETCIES. Eight baronetcies lijive been created and they include:— ' . Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, Lord Mayor of London. KNIGHTHOODS. Twenty-eight knighthoods have been conferred. G.C.M.G. Grand Crosses of St. Michael and St. George have been granted to the follow-

I Jl, g ; I The Earl of Liverpool. | Rt. Hon. P. W. Borden, Premier of jCanada; | General Rnndle, of Malta, j Admiral Bosanouet. ;|' 1 ' K.C-M.G. | The following.have been made Knight i Commanders of St. Michael and St. I George':r Mr W. H. Irvine, Cqmmoinvealth At-torney-General. Major-General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces. " C.M.G. Companionships of St. Michael and :St. George have -been;granted t-o: — Dr. William Barlow, Vice'-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, j , Colonel John William Parnell, of Aus- | tralia. : Mr C. J. Parr, Mayor of Auckland-. . | ' . K.B. '! The decoration of , Knight. Bachelor I has been conferred as fojlows:— t Dr Douglas Mawsoiij the explorer. , Dr Thomas Peter Anderson Sfcwart, Professor Of Physiology in the University of Sydney. •