POLITICAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8702, 22 December 1899, Page 2

POLITICAL.

* RECONSTRUCTION OF CABINET. (Per Press Association.) fl Welunotok, Last night. Mr J. G. Ward was sworn in to-day as Colonial Secretary, Minister of Railways, Postmaster -General, Commissioner of Telegraphs, Minister i of Industries and Commerce. Mr Carroll becomes Minister of Native Affairs. The portfolios of Mines, Justice, Attorney-General, and Defence will remain open for the present, but it is understood two of these will be filled by an Auckland member. The Premier will control the Defence Department for a time, and ultimately take it permanently. Mr Cadman will be called to the Legislative Council, and retainß his position in the Executive without portfolio. The reconstruction of the Cabinet has caused the Premier to resign the portfolios of Postmaster-General, Telegraphs, and Native Affairs. When he takes over Defence he will, in addition to the Premiership and Colonial Treaßurership, still have control of the Government Insurance, Public Trust and Land and Income Tax Departments. The selection of an Ol additional Minister is held over till after a the holidays. Mr Carroll, it is scarcely necessary to mention, is the first of his 'I race in the colony to hold the position of D Native Minister. The Hon. Thompson a will retain office till ihe end of the year. This d«y.— The New Zealand Times 8 says that the Hon. Jos. Carroll is to be congratulated upon his promotiou to the Cabinet rank as Minister of Native Affairs. " It is a matter of pride that a geneleman in •' whose veins flows the blood, of the Maori jj race, should have won his way by his " ability and services to the exalted position c of a Minister of the Crown, and we trust that under the stimulus of increased responsibility Mr Carroll will discard his habit of reposofulness, and let bis eloquent voice be oftener heard in the House. v