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Show I KING REWARDS 1 SIR j. M. BARR9E 4 Jfl1 LONDONi Jan. 2. (By the Aseo- y elated Press.) Sir James M. Barrle jf la the most conspicuous recipient of the now year's honors. He is award- j HaV cd tho order uf merit for services to llteraturo and tho drama. This la one of the highest honors and is "Strictly K9 limited In numbers, others holding the decoration Including jlr. Hlovd I George. A. J, Balfour, Lord Morl'ey I and Thomas Hnrdy. 1 DISIXLliER HONORED Four new peers are created Sir ! I James Buchanan, the famous whisky distiller, sir Robert Nlvison, financial adviser to the government and the I overseas dominions; Joseph Watson, Bm railway director and prominent Id tin' KSSy ' horso ruclriB world, and Lieutenant Br-' W Colonel Pruncls V, Willey, head or the JgV Bradford and Boston, .Mass., firm of K- -V y wuol in- rc hunts. nB Among the knights are Gerald Du ' Maurier, actor-man lger, and the actor. ac-tor. Charles Il.iwuev: J;nns .lobusa Shannon, the artist; Landon Ronald musician, Professor William M Abbott Ab-bott Hc-rdman. Scientist, and Colonel Joseph Reed, chairman of the press association. WoSlI.N DE ORAT1 l Among the ladies appearing In the new order of the Brltlsd empire 18 Marchioness Curzon of Kedlestoii, wife of tho secretary for foreign affairs, who was the daughter of the late J. Monroe Hinds, United States minister to Brazil, and widow of Alfred Duggan or Buenos Aires. Mrs. rlugh.es wife of the Australian premier, receives the same order. |