TO -DAY'S CABLES.
ffHB RECONSTRUCTED MINIS. TRY. (Eeceived April 15, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON* Tuesday. The reconstructed Ministry is completed. Mr Edmund Bobertson, Under-See-retary J.o the Admiralty, and Mr Thomas Lough, Under-Secretary for Education, retire. Mj Lougli has been made a Privy Councillor. Mr Thomas McKinnon Wood, member for the St. Eollox Division of Glasgow, - gow, succeeds Mr Lough. Dr. Macnamara, Financial Secretary to the Local Government Board, ' becomes Secretary to the Admiralty, and Mr -0. F. Masterman, member for West Ham, succeeds Dr. Macnamara. Mr Hobhouse has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Opinions in France are favourable to Mr Asquith's Ministry. The -"Temps" says that Mr Asquith's practical oportunism has replaced Sir H. C. Bannerman's naive sentimentalism, which was full of illusions gild occasionally- embarrassing. The "Chronicle"' says it is intended,to increase the status of the Presidents of the' Boards of Trade and liocal Government, allotting a salary of £5000 to each portfolio.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 April 1908, Page 3
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