CORONATION HONORS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 333, 21 June 1911, Page 5

CORONATION HONORS.

SIR JOSEPH WARD MADE A BARONET. SEVEEAL KNIGHTHOODS FOR NEW ZEALAND. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London. June 10; The Coronation honors are announced. Following are among the list:— BARONETCY. Sir Joseph Ward. P.C., L.L.D., K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of New Zealand, has been created a baronet. PEERS. Lord Kitehener has been made a Knight of St. Patrick. The Earl of Crewe, a Marquis. Lords Roscbery, Brassey and Curzon, Earls of the United Kingdom. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Viscount Islington, Governor of New Zealand, and Mr. A. Fisher, Premier of Australia, are amongst the new Privy Councillors. KNIGHTHOODS. Lord Denman (the new GovernorGeneral 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-Premier and Native Minister of New Zealand). Hon. Dr. Findlay {Attorney-General of New Zealand)"". Mr. Hartmann W. Just, C.8., C.M.G. (Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies). Captain Creswell (Naval Director of Australia). General Hoad (Military Director of Australian Forces). The following colonials have been appointed Knights Batchelor: His Honor Charles Major (Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner' for the Western Pacific). Hon. A. R. Gumness (Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives). Hon. Walter Madden (Speaker of the Victorian Executive Council). His Honor Judge Williams, of New Zealand. And the Lord Mayor of Sydney. ADDITIONAL HONORS.

London, June 20. The following were created Companions of St. Michael and St. George:— Dr. Barnett, Melbourne University; Colonel Robert Collins, V.D., 1.5.0., Comptroller and Auditor-General of New-Zea-land; Dr. Frederick Fitchett, Public Trustee; Mr. Hutson, Colonial Secretary of Fiji (ranking as a Magistrate of Queensland); Mr. Lionel Showel, Government Statist South Australia; and Mr. Wilson, Premier of Westralia. FURTHER DISTINCTIONS.

Received 21, 1 a.m. London, June 20. A Knighthood has been conferred on Mr. George Alexander, the actor. Commanders,of the Bath include Major Ross, the investigator of sleeping Btckness on the Congo, and Mr. Parsons, the inventor of the turbine. Grand Crosses of the Bath: Admirals Fanshawe, Beaumont, Fawkes and May. Companions of the Imperial Service Order: Mr. Horatio Blow, Secretary for Public Works, New Zealand, and Mr. Edward Tregear, late of the Department of Labor.

THE NEW BARONET. Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward,P.C, K.C.M.G., LL.D.. Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Minister of Finance, Post-master-General, Minister r>f Telegrams. Minister of Railways, Mi'i.ster of Defence, and Minister of Tourist s-id Health Resorts; horn at Emerald 11:11, Melbourne, Victoria, April 20. 185 C, son of William Thomas Ward, ml arrived in New Zealand with his parents as a child. At the age of 13 he entered the Postal Department, after some time in a mercantile office entered the Railway jjepartment, and at 21 began business as an export merchant. He was six years Mayor of Gimpbelltown, and some time chairman of the Bluff Harbor Board, and in 1887 was returned to the House of Representatives as Liberal member for Awarua, which he still represents. Since lie first took office as Postmaster-General in the Ballance Ministry in February 1801. he has fisurccl j conspicuously in the public life of New Zealand, and has introduced many important reforms from time to time. In the .Seddon Government, which held office uninterruptedly for thirteen years, he was Colonial Treasurer, PostmasterGeneral and Commissioner for Customs from May ISO 3 to June 1800, and was also Electric Telegraph Commissioner and Minister of Marine: from December 1800 to -nine 1006 he held the portfolios of Postmaster-General and Colonial Secretary, and also Electric Telegraph Commissioner, and was Minister of Industries and Commerce from January 1804 to June lflOfi. During Mr. Seddon's absence from the colony he always acted as Premier, and on the death of his chief in 1000 Mr. Hall-Jones, who had become Premier, handed over the Premiership to .Sir Joseph Ward immediately on his return from tiie Rome Postal Conference. He took a prominent part in various Postal Conferences as an originator of cable and postal reforms, secured penny postage for New Zealand, for which he was honored with Knighthood in 1001. and rendered distinguished service for his colony at the Imperial and Maritime Conferences held in London in 1007. During his visit to England in that year he secured the recognition of New Zealand as a "Dominion," was created a Privy Councillor and received the honorary LL.D. degree of the Cniversity of Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Dublin, as well as the freedom of the cities of London, Edinburgh. Manchester, and Bristol. Married, in 1883, Theresa Dorothea de Smith.

OUR NEW KNIGHTS. The Hon. James Carroll, Native Minister, was born at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. in 1857. From 1879 to 1883 he was Native Interpreter in the House ot Representatives, and in 1887 was elected to that Chamber for the Eastern Maori electoral district, for which he sat until J893. when he was returned for Waiapu, his present constituency. He was appointed a, member of the Executive Council in the Ballance Government in 1892, representing the native race; held

the office in the .Scddon Administration, and assumeu the portfolio of Native Minister in 1!)00. He has twite filled the position of Acting-Premier during the (licence of Sir Joseph Ward, Bart., in Kn'j'.iiu!.

Tim Hon. John George Findlay, LL.D., K.C., wits born in Duncdin in 18C2, being a son of Mr. (5. A. Findlay, a merchant of that city. He received his education in tha.t city, taking his LL.B. degree at the Otago University in 1887, and was admitted as barrister and solicitor the same year, securing the LL.D. degree in 1593. He practised in Palmnrsten South with Mr. F. 0. Dalziell, and later practised in Duncdin. Then be became a partner with Sir Robert Stout (now Chief Justice) at Wellington, and continued in partnership until Sir Robert's elevation to the Bench in 1890. He was appointed Attorney-Gen-eral" in 1000, with a seat in the Legislative Council, and was made K.o. in 1007. His wife is the second daughter of Mr. James Wilke, of Dunedin.

The Hon. Arthur Robert Guinness has been Speaker in the House of Representatives since 1003; he was born at Calcutta in 1-848. He arrived in New Zealand in 1852, and was educated at Christ's College, Christchureh. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1867; elected a member of Westland Provincial Council in 1874; entered the House of Representatives in 1884 for Grey, for which he has sat ever since. He was married in 1878 to Miss Elizabeth Westbrook.

His Honor Judge Joshua Strange Williams, M.A., L.L.M., i has been Judge since March 3. 1875. . He was born in London in 1837; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (gaining Chancellor's medal for legal studies 1859, first-class Law Tripos 1858, thirdclass Mathematical Tripos 1859, with his M.A. and LL.M.). He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in November 1850, and arrived in New Zealand 'in 1802. He practised in Christchureh un-. til 1871, when he was appointed District Land Registrar, and was Registrar-Gen-eral of Land from 1872 to 1875. In 1802 and 1863, and from 1866 to 1870 he was a member of the Provincial Council of Canterbury. He was twice married, in 18G5 and in 1877, his present wife being a daughter of Mr. John Wesley Jago, of Dunedin. TABLE OF PRECEDENCE. The table of precedence is as follows: Peers of the Royal blood, archbishops, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, bishops, barons, baronets. Sir Joseph Ward's baronetcy is a hereditary one, and will descend to his eldest son.