The Secretary of the Treasury.

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1892, Page 2

The Secretary of the Treasury.

* . The new Secretary of the Treasury is the member for Chatham, to which constituency he was elected in 1875, having previously entered Parliament for Cambridge in 1866. Sir John Gorst is the second son of the late Mr Edward Chaddock Lowndes (the last name assumed instead of Gorstj who was Clerk of the Peace for the county of Lancashire. He was born in Preston and educated in the local Grammar School, and at eighteen went St. John's College, Cambridge. He made his mark at college as an able, active, and.alert young under* graduate with It, political turn of mind* After leaving Cambridge he read for the bar, but becoming restless he started for this colony. Hecanie out with the intention of being a lay Missionary in the South Seas', but on the voyage got engaged and was married shortly after landing. Sir George Grey, then Governor offered him a commissioner ship in the native district of Waikato, which he accepted and remained at hi 3 post until warned by his friend William Thompson, that he would be assassinated unless he left. He then' returned to England and became a QC. in 1875. In Lord Salisbury's first administration he was Solicitor general ; in the present he previously held the post of Undersecretary for India, and now has become the Secretary of the Treasury. It is said that he has taken this position to qualify himself for still higher positions as "the importance of the Secretaryship of the Treasury to a statesman who is within a step or two of the official ladder, is that it enables him to master the true inwardness of the administrative machine." ..-.-:■..-