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Show IT Hi'H'mTTTiBH II ill M TTTnTTliaaMBBgBMMMUJ H RIDER HAGGARD ISMKilET LONDON, Dec. ni.--The New Year's honors list this jear Is a short-one, as a insult o'f the honors conferred by the king- during' the durbar, but the' selection covers . a wide range of civil servants, politicians ami mop or distinction, the various professions and commerce being Included. Canada is well represented In Ihe colonial co-lonial list, which Is headed by Robert L. Hordcn. the Canadian premier, who becomes be-comes a privy councillor. Only three peerages peer-ages are conferred, tho new barons being be-ing Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmicliael. governor gov-ernor of Madras; Sir Alfred Thomas, for I many yen it leader of the Welsh party In the bouse of commons, and Samuel Hope Morley, c.;-governor of the Hank of England. Among the new baronets are William Nelson, chairman 0f iu, Xclsnn Steamship Steam-ship Hue; Thomas Skinner, a director of the Canadian Pacific railway and deputy governor of the Hudson Ray compiuiv, Joseph rScuclinu Valentine: Chlrol, direct-1 or uf the foreign department of the London Lon-don Tillies; JH. IMder Haggard, tho novelist, nov-elist, and S. J. Pocock, a land owner of England and Canada. The Canadians honored besides Premier Pre-mier Burden un! Colonel John Morrison Gibson, lieutenant governor of Ontario, and Joseph Pope, under secretary for external affairs, who arc made Knights Commando' of St. Michael and St. George; Thomas Cooper Vovllle, deputy minister of finance, companion of St. Michael and St. George, and Lieutenant f'olotiel Uodo'.ph Forget of Montreal and Edmund II. Osier of Toronto, both members mem-bers of the Canadian parliament, Knights Bachelor. |