BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5035, 27 May 1895, Page 2

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Pceeirci, May 36, 6 p.m. London, May 25. Included among the Birthday Honours, aro tho following:— ' Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, to be Knight Grand Commander of tho Order of tho Star of India. Sir 11. 1). Loch, to be a member of tho Privy Council. Lord Playfair and the Right Hon. Jas. Stansfeld, M.P. for Halifax, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Mr Edward Fairfield, C.M.G., Assistant Under-Secretary to tho Colonial Office, Companion of the Bath. The Eiirl of Aberdeon and Lieut.Colonel SirCbas. B. H. Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlements, to be Knights Grand Cross of tho Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr Walter Bosant, novelist; Henry Irving; Dr W. H, Russell, war correspondent; and Mr Lewis Morris, poet, to be Knights Bachelors. Mr Snowdon, Mayor of Melbourne, and His Honour Chief Justice Onslow, of Western Ansttalin, havo been knighted, Sir Thos. F, Bruton, recently appointed Governor of South Australia; Mr R, C. Baker, C.M.G., President of the South Australian Legislative Council, and the Hon W, A. Zeal, President of tho Victorian Legislative Council, to bo Knights Commanders of St, Michael and St. George.

Mr J. A. Panton, Magistrate, Melbourne, and Mr J. S. O'Haltoran, Secretary of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, to be Companions of St. Michael and St. George.

Received May 27,1.10 a.m. Loxuox, May 25. ( Sir John Palmer Abbott, Bart. Sydney, has been created a Knigh Commander of St. Michael and St George.

Messrs Brunei (? Birrell) and Dunn, members of the House ol Commons, liaye boon created Bare, nets.