TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
KING EDWARD AS CZAR’S PATTERN.
By; 'telegraph. Press A'es'n, Copyright Reooivod 9.47 p.tn., Oct. 19. St. Petersburg, Oct. 19. Tbo Tomsk Univorsity has booo closed indefinitely. Count do Witte, informally conferring with influential reformers, assorts that tho Czar is aincorely desirous of mooting the wishes of tho nation. His groatost desire is to bccorno a constitutional sovereign like King Edward. He only hesitated to grant a constitution because ho was not convinced the nation dosired it. Rcfoimcrs aro profoundly sooptical and suspicious. There is much dissatisfaction with tho limited franohiso under the Duma scheme. There aro only 13,000 electors in Bt. Petersburg out of a popula.ion of 1,400,000
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 2
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