The New Year Honours List included three Peers, two Privy
Councillors, five Baronets and only about thirty Knights. Colonel George Gibbs, one of the new Peers, as a Government Whip and Treasurer of the Household, has been an industrious and much-liked Member of Parliament. Sir Gerald Strickland is Prime Minister of Malta, and now that he becomes a Peer the problem presented. by his duplication of functions as Prime Minister of Malta and a Member of the House of Commons is incidentally. solved. Sir Frederick Lugard, the other new Peer, was the famous Governor-General of Nigeria. His work -in Colonial administration has been marked not only by a degree of efficiency approaching perfection but by something like a. new philosophy. Among the new Knights music is represented by Mr. Edward German, the composer, and science by General IL B. Hartley.
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