NEW YEAR HONOURS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1191, 3 January 1914, Page 3

NEW YEAR HONOURS.

PRIVY COUNCILLORSHIP FOR MR MASSEY. SIR CHARLES BOWEN, K.C.M.G. PROFESSOR RUTHERFORD knighted. His Excellency has received a cable to the effect that in the New Year Honour list his Majesty the King has been pleased to confer the following honours The Hon. W. F. Massey to be a Privy Councillor. Sir Charles Bowen to be a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Prolessor John Sband to be a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. London, Jan. x. The New Year Honours list is short and unsensational. It includes the following : Colonel Sir Edward Ward, K.C.V.0., K.C.8., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, to be raised to the baronetcy. Professor Ernest Ruthetford, F.R.S. (the distinguished New Zealander), Director of the Physical Laboratories at Manchester University, and Langwortby, Professor of Physics, to receive the order of Knighthood. Dr. Owen Seaman, editor of Punch since 1906, to receive the order of Knighthood. Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.8., President of the Royal Society since 1908, to receive the Order of Merit. Hon. James Bryce, a viscount; Sir Rufus Isaacs, Mr Alexander Ure, Sir Charles Cripps and Sir Harold Harmsworlh, barons.