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Kaikoura Star, 9 October 1906, Page 5

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RUSSIAN TROUBLES. REPORTED EXCESSIVE EXPENDITURE. Paris, Oct . 5. The Viborg correspondent of Le Temps st.aie.- that 31. Kokortsoff, the Minister of Finance, in a confidential report to the Premier (M. Stolypin) estimating the deficit at £15,a00,(M)0 sterling on the current year, declares that the shortage is due to the various departments exceeding the estimates. He asks that the report be submitted to the Tsar, and that His Majesty should be urged to allow the departments, particularly the War Office, to withdraw or reduce any admitting of a postponement. IMPERIAL FAMILY AT PETERHOF. MORE BOMB OUTRAGES. St. Petersburg, Oct. 5. The Tsar and family, who have been cruising in the Gulf of Finland, have returned to Peterhof. General Starynkevitch, Gover-nor-General of Simbirsk, was seriously wounded by a bomb. The person who threw the bomb escaped. A bomb thrown at Tiflis killed an officer and wounded several people. Ten terrorists at Czenstochowa have been sentenced to be shot today. Students at the Warsaw University are refusing to hear lectures in the Russian language. The Faculty advises the Government to remove the University elsewhere. Forty brigand?, ,f*t»»ned the mail train on the Bje'a River bridge, overpowered the escort, and stole a quarter of a million roubles. The robbers escaped. Oct. 8. Perush Kievitch, Chief of the Black Hundred, asserts that the organisation consists of three millio® members, who are pledged Jp samjfiee s - !i de?<-u'ci! OI tin orthodox Czar and pure Russian nationality. The bombs seized in thestudents library at Odessa, contained wadding, saturated with hydrocyanic acid, which would kill everyone who got wounded. The dockers’ strike has resulted in their favour.