NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1015, 3 January 1911, Page 5

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

LORD ISLINGTON INCLUDED. NO NEW PEERS. DISTINCTIONS FOR COLONIALS. 13y Telegraph—Press Association— Oopyrlsrbt. (Rec. January- 3, 0.23 a.m.) London, January 2. The New Year's honours' list is announced. It includes six new privy cbuilcillors, and a dozen baronets. There are, however, no new pfeers. Thirteen Commanders of the Order of St. Michael and St. George are created, and 28 Knight Bachelors. The following are among the honours PRIVY COUNCILLORS. The Master of Elibank. The Hon. A. W. C. 0. Murray, ' Master of Elibank; and son and heir 'of tho tenth Baron Elibank, was born . . in 1870, and entered the House of Commons in 1900 as Liberal member for Edinburghshire. Ho is now Patronage Secretary to the Treasury in ' the Asquith Ministry. Ho was at. one time private fecrotnry to tho Governor of the Leeward Islands. The Hon. Abraham Fischer. Mr. Fischer is Minister for Lands ..in the South African Cabinet. He was . born at Cape Town in 1850. Ho was a member of tho Orange Free State Legislature from 1878 onwards, and \ a member of the Ministry from ,1896 up .to tho. War: Mr. Fischer was president of the joint deputation from . the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which toured Europe and America during the war and appealed for 6iipport. He is said to have the subtlest brain -in South Africa. BARONETS. Mr. Charles Wright Macara, J.P. Mr. Macara is ' chairman of .tlio Committee of tho International Fed-' oration of Master Cotton Spinners and. ■ . Manufacturers''; Association, a position which he • has . occupied sinco ; 1904. ! Ho is managing director of the : Bannerman Mills Company, Ltd., of • •' Manchester, and is one of tho most prominent figures in tho cotton industry in Great Britain. - He was born in Fifeghiro in 1815. Mr. Macara took a prominent part 1 inidrawing up. tlio famous Brooklands agreement fortho regulation of wages and conditions . in 1 tho cotton industry. , His hobby is lifeboat work, .and, he was tho originator of' tho Lifeboat Saturday •' movement, which ho directed throughout tho United Kingdom from 1891 to 1890. Mr. William Younger. . Mr. Younger has taken a prominent part, in the movement for providing consumptive sanatoria. He eat in the House of Commons in the Conservative interest from 1895 to 1906 as member for Stamford,' Lincolnshire. Dr. Leander Starr Jameson. • ' Dr. Leander Starr Jameson'was born ■at Edinburgh in the year 1853. Ho received his education for tho medical profession at University College Hospital, London. "Dr. Jim" had a successful oareer, and in tho year 1875 gained his M.R.C.S. degree, two years ; later receiving tho M.D, degree. His . .■health ,broke down in 1878, and he ' wrnt to South Africa, and settled down . in ' practice- at Kimborly. • When, Rhodes, seeking the right to mine gold in Mashonaland, desired a trustworthy envoy to visit tho, treacherous ; native Chief LotiengUla, and secure the ncccsKiry concession. "Dr. Jim" undertook tho task, and secured tho ■ grant of the charter to the South African' Company. The story, of tho unfortunate raid of 1895 is too well known to need repetition. In June, 1900, he was. elected without opposition from liimberley to tho Cape Parliament.;

The Hon. D. P. Graaf. Mr. Graaf .is Minister for Public Works in'the. South African Cabinet. K.C.M.Ci. Lord Islington, Governor of New Zealand. Sir Newtown .James Moore, exPremier, of West Australia. ; . Mr. Abe. Bailey, the South African . mining magnate. C.M.G. Mr. Knibbs, . the Commonwealth Statistician. . Mr. ,F. M. Bailey, Queensland Government' Botanist. Knights Bachelor. 'Mr. Jesso Herbert, tho Liberal organiser. ' . Mr. Joseph Lyons, the well-known London caterer, who is a prominent supporter of the Territorials. Hon. W. Cullen New South Wales). ' Hon. J. W. Hackett, M.L.C., (West Australia). Mr. Thomas Tait, ex-Commissioner of Railways, Victoria. ." Mr. Sidney Colvin, of the. British Museum,. Mr. Georgo Warner, of the British Museum. Dr. J. M. Redmond. Mr. Henry J. Wood, Orchestral Conductor. ' , , King's Police Medals. Ninety-four King's Police Medals are awarded, including: Constable , Haytread, whose bravery was cablcd on December 27. Constable Hare for im- ■ proving . the force, and intimating the carrying of many reforms.Constablo Bourlce, for bravery at Croyden (Queensland'. NEW PEERAGES DELAYED. .' LIBERAL SPECULATION. (Rec. January 3, 0.25 a.m.) London, January 2. The "Daily Chronicle" states that the absence of new peers is a surprise. Either their creation: has been deferred till the Coronation, wlien tho largo honours list will bo published, or has been reserved. until an emergency arises, possibly necessitating tho wholesale creation of Liberal peers.