Birthday Honors

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 28, 23 June 1914, Page 5

Birthday Honors

AUSTRALASIAN DIGNITARIES .RECOGNISED. MAJOR-GENERAL GODLEY KNIGHTED. ly Cable—Press Association —Copyright London, June 21.

The birthday honors include four new peers, among whom are the Right Hon. Justice Sir H. H. Cozens Hardy and Sir E<lgar Vincent. Lord Kitchener receives an earldom.

There are four new Privy Councillors,

including Mr. Joseph Cook (Premier of Australia), Mr. 11. J. Tennant ('Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the War Office) and Mr. Ellis Griffith (UnderSecretary of State for the Home Department). Eight baronetcies have been granted, including the Lord Mayor of London, and twenty-eight knighthoods. The Earl of Liverpool (Governor of New Zealand), Mr. Borden (Premier of Canada), General Rundle (of Malta) and Admiral Bonsanquet have been granted Grand Crosses of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) Mr. Irvine, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, and Major-General Godley, of New Zealand, have been made Knights Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) Mr. William Barlow, of the University of Adelaide, Colonel Jolm William Parnell, of Australia, Mr. Parr, Mayor of Auckland, have been made Companions of the Order of St. George (C.M.G.) Dr. George Mawson, explorer, and Mr. Thomas Peter Stuart, of Sydney University, have been made Knights Bachelor. Mr. Robert Nivison has been made a baronet; Admiral Reginald Henderson has received a G. 0.8.; Lord Beauchamp has been made Knight of the Garter, and Lord Kinnaird a Knight of the Thistle.

Received 22, 9.50 p.m. London, June 22.

Additional birthday honors are: — Lord Gladstone, Grand Cross of the Bath; Lieut.-Gencral F. R. Wlngsw« (Sirdar and Governor-General of Soudan), Grand Cross of the Bath; Henderson (Director of Aeronautics at the War Office), Commander of the Bath; (Mr. Thomas Ronayne (late General Manager of New Zealand Railways), Imperial Service Order.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The birthday honors included Mr. Thomas Ronayne, formerly General Manager of Railways in New Zealand, who is awarded the Imperial Service Order.