ASQUITH MINISTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 90, 14 April 1908, Page 5

ASQUITH MINISTRY.

PORTFOLIOS BE-ARRANCED. A STRENGTHENED GOVERNr ■ ''''\.;"p«T V ' r ;''' COLONIAL SECRETARYSHIP, j EARL CREWE APPOINTED. (By Association—Copyright) 3. -■."■■' LONDON; April" 13. ... Mr. Asquithj the-new-Prmier Minister, has formed a.. Cabinet, and it is officially announced.that. Mr. John Morley (Secretary of State for India) and Sir Henry Hartley Fowler (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) have been created visr counts, retaining their present offices. The following, rearrangement of. portr folios has taken place:— | MR. H. H. ASQUITH: Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; LORD TWEEDMOUTH, Lord President, of the Council. ".' EARL OF CREWE, Secretary of State for the Colonies. ; ! "VISCOUNT MORLEX,-,' Secretary of State for India. MR DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE, Chan : cellorof the Exchequer-.' MR REGINALD- McKENNA, First --. , Lord, of, the Admiralty. MR WINSTON OTURCHILL, President of the Board of Trade. MR. WALTER RUNCIMAN, President of the Education Board: VISCOUNT FOWLER, Chancellor of I the Duchy of Lancaster, '.The above are all members of; the , Cabinet.,., . , I" ' " ' OTHER APPOINTMENTS. . The following new appointments, have been made without a seat in the Cabi: net:—' LORD LUCAS, Under-Secretary for the Colonies. MR. F. D. ACLAND, Under-Secretary ' for War. MR T. R BUCHANAN, Financial Secretary. , ■ ••• --:' The Under-Secretary for India is not mentioned. Other members of the late Cabinet retain their offices, as follows:— Lord Loreburn, Lord High Chancellor. Marquess of Ripon, Lord Privy Seal. .■ Mr. Herbeit Gladstone, Secretary, of State for Home Affairs. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. .... Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War. Mr. John Sinclair, Secretary for Scotland. Mr. A,.; Birrell,. Chief Secretary for Ireland, , . Mr. - ; " ■ Sydney, Buxton, PostmasterGeneral. Mr. John Burns, President of. the Local Government Board. Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Lewis V. Harcourt,. First Commissioner of Works. Mr. Reginald McKenna, who passesfrom the Presidency of the Board of Education to the position of- First Lord of the Admiralty, does not vacate his: seat in the House of Commons as member for North Monmouthshire;

It is expected that Mr Charles E. Hobhouse, Parliamentary' • Under-Secretary, for India, will be appointed Secretary to the Treasury, i -v ... , . Mr, Herbert Samuel, Under-Secretary, to the Home Office, declined promotion, preferring to pilot his Juvenile, Protection Bin through the House of Commons.

Lord Morley, in an'address to his constituents, informs them-that his health, compelled him to choose between resigning his office as Secretary of State for. India or withdrawal from the House of Commons, and he chose the latter alternative at the instance, of his colleagues.