CABINET CHANGES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 966, 5 November 1910, Page 5

CABINET CHANGES.

1 NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY. MR. LEWIS HAROOURT, APPOINTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 3. The following Cabinot changes are officially announced: — Viscount Morley resigns the position of . Secretary of State for India, and becomes Lord President of tho Council. The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, becomes Secretary of State for India. The Eight Hon. Lewis V. Harcourt, First Commissioner for Works, becomes Secretary of State for ■ the Colonies. . Earl Bcauchamp, Lord President of the Council, becomes First Commissioner for Works. Mr. "Lulu" Harcourt, witty son of 0 witty, father, Sir William Harcourt,. is the rising hope" of . the Liberals. Ho lias i very happy knack of dealing with members in the Commons. "Perhaps his most successful effort (says the 'Spectator') was the Teply to Sir. J. Ward, who protested against the vote of <£33,500 for the Houses or Parliament buildings, on the groundthat the House of Lords performed no useful function in our constitution. Mr. Harcourt declared that he 'entirely sympathised with tho ultimate object of_ tho' hon. member, and when he went tigerhunting across tho lobby he _{llr. Harcourt) hoped to accompany him, either as loader or beater, but he did not think it was gcod policy for a shikari to go into the cover and disturb the game in advance ivith a popgun.'" Sir. Harcourt is ■ the eldest son of ■ the late. Sir William Harcourt, and is 47 years old. He entered the House of Commons in 190 i. as member for the Kossendale Division, of North-East Lancashire, and was appointed First Commissioner of Works m 190.5, and joined the Cabinet in 1907. For some years ho acted, as private secretary to his .father.. ,

THE PROPOSED DIVISION. ■ NO DETAILS AVAILABLE. . London, November 3. No details are available regarding the proposed division of tho Colonial Office which Earl Crewe foreshadowed on March 15. ; Tho "Daily Chronicle" says the division of the .Colonial Office will not ba effected before tho Imperial Conference meets.

Speaking at a dinner inthonour of Sir on March 15 las't, Lord Crews said ho did not think he was altogether wrong in forecasting that the present official arrangement, by which. the same official, the Secretary of State for the Colonies,, looked after the business connected with the great Dominions, and also looked after all. tlio rest of the Empire beyond the seas with the exception of India,' was not an arrangeinent which, v.-;is likely permanently to lost. He thought tho time would come, and it might como at no very distant date, when the donblo position of Secretary of Stato for tho Colonies might havs to "be reconsidered with a view to some further arrangement. being entered into by which the care of matters relating to', the Dominions might be entrusted to one official, and the care of the Crown Colonies . and Protectorates, which was work of -a very different kind, to another. NEWSPAPER OPINION. . (Rec. November 4, 11.45 p.m'.)> London, November 4. • The "Daily News" says the Domin«. ions' grievance against tho Colonial Of- • fico will hot bo met by giving them a np)v,Secretary of. State to themselves, as the bulk of the Colonial Office's work concerns the Crown Colonies, -and the Dominions department would be a very attenuated affair. What the Dominiona. want is the right of direct access to the t Premier, who would then be the Dominions' mouthpiece to the Foreign Secretary, . the War Office, and the Admiralty. ' ;

The "Daily Chronicle" doilies that the appointment of a now Secretary of Stato tor the Colonies is contemplated, and says what .is proposed is a permanent secretariat for the overseas Dominions. It adds that tho change will not be introduced before Mn Fisher's arrival in England.

SIR. W. HALL-JONES INTER-. ' VIEWED. (Rec. November 4, D.20 p.m.) London, November 4. Sir W. Hall-Jones,' High. Commissioner for New Zealand, on being interviewed suggested that tho r innovation was merely a recognition of the fact that New Zealand and tlio other Dominions wero developing so rapidly that it was essential that tho Homo Government should afford more careful atten-. tion to their needs. He added that the Colonial Office had behaved excellently to th 6 overseas Dominions, in the past, and that Lord Crewe had never failed them. INVALIDITY INSURANCE. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES CONSULTED. London, November 3. ' The Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, has submitted a tentative scheme of State insurance against invalidity to tho Grand Master of the Manchester "Unity, Independent Order of Oddfellows. He invites suggestions. Tho Chancellor intends conferring at an early date with ' representatives of the friendly societies. THE LAND TAX. AN APPEAL DISMISSED. ' London, November 3. The King's Bench lias dismissed th<> appeal of tho West. Riding Land Association against tlio order to fill up Land Tax Form 4. The Marquis of Northampton, who owns about 23,000 acres, had hundreds of Form 4 to fill in. He did so' frithout difficulty. IRISH DEVOLUTION. A SCHEME CONDEMNED. : London, November 3. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says that Lord M'Donnell's schemo of devolution for Ireland is unsound, both with regard to finance and policy, and is condemned at tho outset by tho unfair, extravagant demands upon 'the British taxpayer.

THE 'VETO CONFERENCE. (Ree. November 4, 10.30 p.m.) . London, November 4. Tlio Veto Conference continued itl sittings yesterday.