TROUBLE IN RUS

Gisborne Times, 26 July 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUS

FATAL RIOTING By, telegraph, Ptess Ass’n, * St. Petersburg Five boura’ rioting occurrod; go rod oo oumJay. Many PPOple wero killed an The town is in a slate of \ completely in tho hands of t roughs, who are attacking o¥ grossed people. Tho authorities report - "AV are expected in various disown six Russian provinces.

MORE shooting. AN ADROIT MOVE-

By telegraph, Press Asg’n, CoIt K£ Reoeived 9.50 p.m., July 26. St. Petersburg, Joly p Much secrecy is observed regardin, disturbances at Libau, where a Dumb’ revolutionaries and sevoral genda.^ were killed. Baron Prevern, of the Peasant Conn sion, was treacherously shot near Liba Received 11.41 p.m., July 25.

As a counter move to the Zemstvot. Conference, M. Goremkyn, head o£ the commission appointed by the Czar to inquire infco the condition of the peasants, proposes tbat the Czar’s aide-de-camps visit the towns and invite representatives of every class ..to decide by vote whether they prefer to elect members to an Imperial dnma on a class baeis or not, tne peasants at the same time to be informed that the Czar will give them more land. It is supposed this will render the peasants indifferent, perhaps hostile to the Zemstvos. A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. 855 tuiegraßh', Press Aag’n, Copyright Rtoeived 12.4 a.tn., July 26.

St. Petersburg, July 25. The Council of Ministers has greatly liberalised M. Buliguiue’s national assembly, which was fundamentally subordinate in character. The Cbuncil has plaoed it on un independent footing. The president is not to be a member of the Committee o Ministers, but must be elected by the Assembly, which have the right to pronounce upon all matters of a legislative character, not merely to be limited to the list of questions M. Buliguine proposed to concede to the Assembly, but also to have the right to examine ali appointments to Ministries.