CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3491, 2 March 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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A SUGGESTED REVISION OF LAWS. MEETING OF MINISTERS. ST. Pete asm: rg, February 27. When the Committee of Ministers v/v; considering ilm 'revision of special laws to prevent social disorder. M. Durnovo, Assistant Minister of (he Interior, declared that domiciliary visits, exoulsiop. and oilier methods of punishment under present admininia(ration —in place of regular Judicial proc'-odure —only caused exasperation. M. de Witte, President of the Com- ! nil tee, said the Government ought to prevent evil, instead of only aiming at repression. He pleaded the cause of the Jews, whose lives he declared were rendered insupportable. The Committee decided that the laws must he positively defined, and exceptional measures strictly confined to times of disorder, and decided to advise the Czar to appoint a special conference to revise the laws relating to the maintenance rtf order. It is stated that the Czar has confirmed the Committee’s conclusion.

ALARMING SPREAD OF GENERAL UNREST. MAXIM GORKI RELEASED. St. Petersburg, February 28. The Polish peasantry, excited hy Socialists, are joining the strike movement, demanding 50 per cent, rise in wages, and the right to retain their own language. One hundred and thirty villages in the district of Siedlice, Prnszkoff. Lnnrez, and Plotrk have refused to re ceive official proclamations in the Russian language. The inhabitants of fifty tillages are resorting to violence, and are burning the Government alcohol shops.

The authorities are apparently help less.

Alarming developments are feared. Maxim Gorki, the Russian novelist, who was arrested in connection with the disturbances at St. Petersburg last month, has been released. He was compelled to proceed to Riga immediately.