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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >_._< THE NEW BRITISH MINISTRY. ALLOTMENT OP VACANT PORTFOLLIOS. NEW PEERAGES. FORMAL INVESTITURE of HONORS TO COLONIALS. (Received August 2, 10 p.m.) London, August 2. The Marquis of Salisbury hag now completed the task of forming a Ministry. The vacant portfolios have been allotted as follows .-—Secretary of State for India, Sir R. Cross j Secretary of State for the Colonies, Edward Stanhope; President of the Board of Trade, Colonel P. R. Stanley; Lord Privy Seal, Earl Cadogan. (Received August 3, 1 p.m.) Later. Sir Richard Cross and Colonel F. R. Stanley, who were appointed respectively Secretary of State for India, and President of the Board of Trade, have been raised to the peerage. The Colonial recipients of honours in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition wore formally invested with their Orders at Osborne to day, by the Queen. The proceedings were on a grand and imposing scale.
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Kumara Times, Issue 3042, 3 August 1886, Page 2
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