LORD GLADSTONE RETIRES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14900, 13 February 1914, Page 7

LORD GLADSTONE RETIRES.

MR SYDNEY BUXTON SUCCEEDS HIM.

BRITISH CABINET CHANGES

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 11.

Lord Gladstone, Governor-General of South Africa, retires in May, an official announcement harfng been made to this effect.

It is officially announced that Mr Sydney Buxton succeeds Lord Glad-

stone. Mr John Burns will be transferred to the Board of Trade, and Mr Herbert Samuel to the Local Government Board; Mr C. E. Hobhouse will become Postmaster-General, and Mr C. F. G. Masterman Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

By-elections will be necessary at Poplar and BethnaJ Green. Mr Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that Lord Gladstone enjoyed the complete confidence or" the Imperial Government. He wished to retire early in 1913, but owing to pressure by the Imperial Government agreed to postpone hie resignation. His reasons were entirely domestic.

Mr Sydney Buxton, who succeeds Lord Gladstone as Governor-General of South Africa, is sixty voars of age. He was educated at Clifton and Trinity College, Cambridge, entered Parliament in 1883, and has eat for Poplar eince 18S6. He was Postmaster-General from 1905 to 1910.

Mr C. F. G. Masterman. who attains to Cabinet rank as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, is forty. Hβ had a distinguished career at Cambridge, and has written a good deal for leading London journals. Hβ is known to many as the author of "The Condition of England." He has been Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. Under-Seoretary to the Home Department, and Financial Secretary to tbo Treasury.