BRITISH MINISTRY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2954, 18 December 1916, Page 8

BRITISH MINISTRY

FURTHER APPOINTMENTS • _ London, December 15. '•The following appointments are gazetted:— , Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Munitions.—Mr. F. C. Kellaway. Parliamentary Secretary to tho 'Admiralty.—Dr. T. J.. Macnamara. Civil Lord of .the Admiralty.—Captain E.G. Pretyman. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade.—Mr. 6. H. Roberta. Board -of Agriculture.—Sir Richard "Winfrey. Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office—Mr. J. I. Macj _ pherson. Financial Secretary to the War'Office.!—Mr. H. W. Forster. Lord Steward of the Household.— Lord Farquhar. Treasurer of the • Household.—Mr. 'James Craig. Comptroller of the Household. —Sir . Edwin Cornwall Captain of 'the Yeoman of the Guard. —Lord Suffield. Lords-in-Waiting. — Lord Kenyon, Viscount Valentia. Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board. —Major J. L. Baird. Parliamentary Secretaries, to -the ■ Treasury.—Lord E. Talbot, the Hon. Neil Primrose. Junior Lords of tho Treasury.—Mr. •J. F. Pope, Mr. S. Walsh, Mr. • J. W. Pratt. Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

-Sir W. H: Lever. I Other appointment? are unchanged. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS. London, December 15. The Bill relieving Ministers from reelection by their constituencies has passed ail stages in the House of Commons. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MINISTRY CRITICISED. GOVERNMENT' NOT A CABINET. (Roc. December 16,. 6 p.m.) London, December 15. The "Nation" says : ''The new Government is in no intelligible sense a Liberal Administration. The inner strength of the Government lies in the War Directorate, composed of Mr. Lloyd George, a _ Tory Protectionist, two Tory Imperialists, and .a. Labour member. Five Secretaryships of State and the Secretaryship of the Navv have been allocated to Unionists, with a sprinkling of Liberal under-Ministers. Really the Government is not a Cabinet, but a collection of heads of great administrative departments grouped under the Prime Minister, in what is virtually a committee of Parliament. The inner body is a kind of cabal. How long Parliament will tolerate so irregular and futile a separation of dig-, nity from responsibility remains to be seep.' Wo are surprised to learn that thoi" Prime Minister, in the gifted person of Mr. Lloyd George, lias beeii suddenly enabled to confront the double task of running the war and the Ministry. of'whioh Mr. 'Asquith was.incapable. "-Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'Assn.