RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY IN RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 127, 27 November 1895, Page 2

RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY IN RUSSIA.

THE " RULE OP THE ROAD " AT SEA. ILLNESS OF DUMAS THE NOVEIiIST. . iPerPress Association! St, Petersburg, Nov. 24. The Czar is compelling a mitigation of the religious bigotry of the officials. He insists that they shall co operate in promoting education amongst the masses The Czar is abolishing corporal punishment as applied to the Russian peasantry. London, November 25. A committee presided over by Sir F. H. Jeune, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, has recommended that the Board of Trade's rule of thejroad at sea be cancelled. Mr Whetham, Inspector under the Education Department in Adelaide, is making enquiries as to the methods of teaching in schools in England. Prince Henry cf Battehburg has volunteered for service with the British forces operating against the natives of Ashantee. It is reported that, owiDg to the shipyard strike, Germany has secured the Japanese orders, for the construction of ironclads, intended for Great Britain. The decree of divorce obtained by John Rogers against bis wife Minnie Palmer, the actress, has been made absolute. \ Paris, Nov. 25. Alexander Dumas, novelist and dramatic writer, is suffering from abscess on the brain, and is reported to be dying. The death is announced of Jnles Barthelemy St Helaire, the well-known writer, aged 90.