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CORONATION HONOURS.
IBY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.]
[Received June 27, 3.15 ajn-1
:£. NEW ORDER OF MERffi.
TITLES FOR COLONIAL STATESMEN
London. June 25.
Tbd London Gazette notifies that Hid
Majesty Uie King has directed that tha
honours, which in ordinary circumstanced
would have been conferred upon tho re
cipients on Coronation Bay, should ba
gazetted without delay.
A decoration, to bo known as ihe Im«
pcrial Sen-ice Order for members of civil
sen-ices, has been, instituted.
A new order of merit haa been created,
which will be conferred upon persons who
have rendered distinguished sarvice to the
empire. The first recipients of this special
mark of the King's appreciation are Earl
Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British
Army; Keld-Marshal Viscount Wolseley,
who was Commander-in-Chief from 1895 to
1900; Viscount Kitchener, late Commander
in-Chief of the Army in South Africa; Lord
Rayleigh, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., who has
filled the position of professor of natural
philosophy at, the Royal Institution 6inw
1887; Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., &c, tha
famous electrician, who was professor of
natural philosophy in tlie Glasgow Univer
sity from 1840- to 1899; Lord Lister,
F.R.C.S., sergeant-surgeon in ordinary la
His Majesty since 1901, the discoverer of the
antiseptic treatment'in surgery; the Right
Hon. John Morley, P.C., M.P., tha well
known statesman and author; the Right
Hon. W. E. II. Lecky, P.O., M.P., historian,
and author; Admiral Sir Henry Keppel,
G.C.B., author of 'A Sailor's Life Under
Four Sovereigns,' -who commanded tlie na
val brigade in the Crimean war; Admiral
Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, G.C.B., who
also served in tbe Crimean war, and was
Commander-inChief on the China station
from 1898 to- 1901; and Me. G. F. Watts,
R.A, the celebrated artist.
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