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Taranaki Daily News, 8 August 1919, Page 4

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A London cable states that the King hag conferred on Mr. Lloyd George the Order of Merit.

Unofficial reports from Melbourne state that Sir Samuel Barton will succeed Sir Samuel Griffith as Chief Justice.

A Sydney message reports that the Rev. J. M. Stewart has been electeu Bishop of Melanesia to succeed Bishop Wilson, who has resigned. Nurse Ewen Pellew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Pellew, of New Plymouth, of the Christclmrch Hospital, has been successful in passing the State examination, with honors.

Dr. Adam Wyld Pairman, formerly a well-known medical practitioner of To Awamutu, died at the Auckland Hospital on Saturday from cerebral hemorrhage following on apoplexy, at the age of IKS. Br. Pairman was born at Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and went to South Africa in 1889, After practising his profession at Pretoria, ho came to New Zealand in 1892, and took up his' residence at Te Awamutu. He is survived by Mrs. Pairman. Advice has been received from England that' in the King's Birthday Honors Lieut.-Colonel S. S, Allen, U.S O. and bar, has been made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. Lieut.-Colonel Allen's npme was omitted from the cabled list. Lieut.-Colonel Allen left as a Major in the Sixth Reinforcements. Ho spent six weeks on Gallipoli, and later went to France, where he had a distinguished record and was; in command of the Second Auckland Battalion, lie returned to Auckland with his brother, Colonel 11. C. Allen, D.5.0., a short time ago.