THE RECONSTRUCTED CABINET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 5

THE RECONSTRUCTED CABINET.

LATEST APPOINTMENTS.

FRENCH OPINION ON THE , MINISTRY.

(Received April 15, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. Tho formation of the new Ministry has been completed by Mr Asquith. Mr Edmund Robertson, Secretary to the Admiralty, and Mr Thomas Lough, Secretary to "the Board of Education, are to retire. Mr Lough has been made a Privy Councillor. Dr. T. McKinnon Wood, 8.A., LL.D., D.L., member for the St. Rollox division of Glasgow, who was recently Chairman of the London County Council during the Progressive regime, succeeds Mr Lough. Dr. T. J. Macnamara, LL.D., the prominent educationist, becomes Secretary to the Admiralty. Mr C. F. G. Masterman, ruthor and journalist, succeeds Dr. Macnamara. Mr C. E. H. Hobhouse (Bristol) has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Opinions published in France are favourable to Mr Asquith's Ministry. The Paris newspaper Le Temps _y«tys Mr Asquith's practical opportunism replaces Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man's naive sentimentalism, which was full of illusions and occasionally embarrassing.

The Chronicle says the Government intends .to increase the -status of the President $ of the Boards of Trade and the Local Government Board by piloting them salaries of £5000 each.