HONOURS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13462, 29 June 1907, Page 5

HONOURS.

SEVERAL 'COLONIALS REMEM-

BERED.,

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph.—^Copyright. LONDON, June 28\ The following honours' are Gazetted: — Knights Bachelor. Mr. Jamee Mills," Union Steamship Co. Mr. Walter James, formerly Premier of Western Australia. Companions of St. Michael. Dr. Wollaston, Comptroller of the Commonwealth Customs. Mr. John Honry, former Treasurer of Tasmania.

Peers. Sir James Kitson, Baronet, iron and steel manufacturer, and one time Lord Mayor of Leeds. Sir James Blyth, Baronet, , and who has done excellent work in the interests of agriculture. Sir~\James "has had many, foreign orders conferred upon him. Sir Samuel Montagu, Baronet and banker. Mr. Alexander Peckover, LL.D., FJ3.A-, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., J.P., and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. Privy Councillors.

Three now Privy Councillors v have been appointed, including Mr. Robert Spence Watson, solicitor, formerly President of the National Liberal Federation, and Mr. Eugene Wason, a member of the House of Commons for Clackmannan and Kinross,

Baronets. Eleven Baronetcies include Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor of London. * Knights. Twenty-three knighthoods have boon conferred. The' recipients include Mr. James Donaldson, LL.D., Principal of the University of St. Andrews. Mr. W. S. Gilbert, the well-known author and playwright. Professor Hubert Von Herkomer, artist and Royal Academician since 1890. Mr. William Quiller. Orchardeon, R.A., D.C.L., painter of subject pictures and portraits. * Professor John Ryhs, M.A., D.Litt., Professor at Oxford University, and a well-known Celtic authority. . . • , Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, K.C.V.0., Commander-in-Chief of the Australian' Squadron, has been created a K.C.B. The niajority of the others are Liberal Organisers. ;

A New Order. > ■ The King has established an Indian Distinguished Service Medal. . v