THE BRITISH MINISTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5

THE BRITISH MINISTRY.

FURTHER APPOINTMENTS MADE. 1 WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE. By Telearrapli.—Press As''oiation.—Copyright. (Received December 33, 9.21 p.m.) London, December 13. Further Ministerial • appointments have been announced as follows: — Financial Secretary to the Treasury : Mr. Reginald McKenna (member for Monmouthshire North). 4 Attorney-General: Mr. John Lawson Walton (member for Leeds South). Solicitor-General: Mr. W. S. Robson (member for South Shields). Secretary to the Admiralty : Mr. Edmund Robertson (member for Dundee). Lord Advocate for Scotland: Mr. Thomas Shaw (member for Hawick). Paymaster-General: Mr. R. K. Causton (member for Southwark West). ' Under-Secretary at Home Office: Mr. Herbert L. Samuel (member for North Riding, Yorkshire). Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office : Mr. Winston Churchill (member for Oldham. Under-Secretary at India Office: j Mr. John E. Ellis (member for Rush- j cliffe Division of Nottinghamshire). - Under-Secretary at War Office: Earl of Portsmouth. APPOINTMENT OF LIBERAL WHIP. ' London, December 12. Mr. George Whiteley, M.P. for the Pudsey division of Yorkshire, has been appointed chief Liberal Whip. The Times says that the men of "the' city" consider that the Liberal Government is the strongest possible, and merits confidence.