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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 2

(Lord Twee-lmc.tii, now Lord Presi- \ dent of the Council" in the reconstructed Cabinet, was First Lord of the Admiralty with Sir H. C. Bannerman, and he takes the place of tho Earl of Crewe, now Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr Lloyd-Geo,rgc leaves the portfolio of the Board of Trade for the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, hitherto held by Mr Asquith, and his place is taken by Mr Winston Churchill, who leaves the Under-Secretary ship of the Colonies, assuming Cabinet rank. Mr Reginald McKenna has been Under-Secretary to the Treasury and then President of the Board of Education, after Mr Birrell, both under Sir Henry Bannerman, and he makes a big jump into the position of First Lord of the Admiralty vacated by Lord Tweedmouth. Mr \V. Runciman, now President of the Board of Education, has been Under-Secretary to the Treasury. Among the appointments without Cabinet rank the new men aro L^rd Lucas, formerly Mr A. T. Herbert, who succeeded his uncle, Earl Cowper, in the barony in 1905, and became Lord Dingwall in the peerage of Scotland, and co-heir to the barony of Butler. He becomes Under-Secretary for the Colonies in the room of Mr Churchill. Mr Francis Dyke Acland, the new Under-Secretary for War (taking the place of the Earl of Portsmouth), is member for the Richmond Division (North Riding) of York, and he has been connected with Volunteering, Mr T. R. Buchanan, tho new Financial Secretary for War, is already the Fi- ' nance Member of the Army Council. He is a barrister. Mr Hobhouse, the new Under-Secretary to the Treasury, has been Under-Secretary of State for India. Mr Herbert Samuel continues as Under-Secreary of State for Home Af- | fairs.)