THE CABINET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 7

THE CABINET.

• ::'/■:— ■ -.»"...'.'■>'•" • '.Appointments to ble ( made to-day.' '■■ f' : ;';■: ,Jn'i aocordanoo'; with tho .statement.''made: last week by the' Prime Minister ; (Sir Joseph' Ward), the new, appointments .to. the' Cab-, inot will' be mado. to-day. .'. The. Prime Minister'will, call upon his hor. at the vice-regal.-.chambers. in:,,Moies-. worth,. Street, and submit, to him tho names ■ of tho gentlemen whom he proposes to call to tho Ministry, and the portfolios to be assigned to thorn, If, as is probable,'.there is' .to' bo some rearrangement,-of. portfolios, among the Ministers at present its. office,, the Prime Minister, will also lay a 'statement of I .these changes, before the Governor. -; After his as the representative.of. the. King, lias signified his acceptance of the advisers selected for him, the. new Ministers will call upon him and will take'the necessary oath in his presence. ' The vacancies in the Ministry were caused by tho resignation of. the Hon. W. Hall-Jones (Minister for Railways and Public Works), and.the defeat of the Hon.; R.M'Nab (Minister for. Lauds and Agriculture),,but it is believed ; that thb 'Railways, portfolio will go ; to the Hon.. J. A. : Millar,.:and that, a new'iMinistor"for Labour frill,be appointed. There may' also be., other changes ; in' ,tlie ofuces'of' tho present. Ministers; and' there have'.been hints of another resignation.'' It is also Considered probable that fin' additional member of the Cabinet will be appointed without a portfolio. '-. ••-, ~ Messrs. R. M'Konzie, A. W. Hogg; and W. ■T. Jennings, M.P.'s, arrived in town yesterday. Their presence ;a't this 'particular time may be taken' as. indicating a Strong probability of their inclusion in. the. reconstructed Cabinet. Other members who are believed some quarters! to have chances of securing, portfolios aro; Messrs.' Laurenson, Thomas Mackenzie, Buddo, and Guinness." '■{ ■■' ' '■'■"■■;. ' •■ '■'.:'■'