JAPANESE CABINET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 5

JAPANESE CABINET

'APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. August i'l, 8.25 p.m.) • : _ Tokio, August .11. , Official.—The Japanese Cabinet appointments are':— ,■ Count Olninm—Premier and Minister for. Foreign Affairs (pending the nomination of a successor). M. Taketomi—Finance. I. Admiral Kato—Marino. M. Ikld. —Interior. : The. most outstanding figure in the now Cabinet, apart from Count Oktima, whose career is already fairly familiar, is M. ; Tokito3hi Taketomi, M.P. Leader of the Japanese National Party, whoso rapid rise from his first entry into the Diet as an obscure politician to the froiit rank, was. quite remarkable. He was Director of the Commercial and Industrial" Bureau in the MatsukataOkuma Ministry, '96-97, and was Chief Secretary of the Cabinet in the Okuma-, Itagaki Ministry; is a man of acute • insight and great power of decision, and ■ reputed as being the best financial talent amongst the Nationalist members. Admiral Kato has had previous administrative experience. M. Ikki cannot be placed under that spelling. According to the stories in circulation (writes the Mangonui .correspondent .of'tbe Auckland "Star"), the oovermnent nurses engaged. in combatting the sickness among the Natives 'in tho Pamapuria and Pukepoto districts find their work considerably hampered by tlio opposition of a tohunga who has obtained a great vogue, but whose drastic cold-vater treatment proves too sovere for the Maoris of the present generation. There have been several'deaths among tho Natives, in one case _ the whole family except the father dying. On Sunday week a. party of Natives took away a Maori patient from tho Mangonui Ilospital who had . ftad a crushed foot dressed there. If ho is submitted to the tohunga's violent methods ho will probably have a slow recovery. The district nurses find all their efforts at alleviating or. curing . 'the sickness among the Maoris brought almost to a standstill by the opposi- ' tion of this particular tohunga, and for tlio sake of the Maoris themselves his operations should bo inquired into. Influenza and measles aro tho diseases raging most fieroely, in addition to some fever, cases,