CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3545, 11 July 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

-- ■ ■ ■ <*» L__ Russia's Home Trouble. 3k IUTINFERS SURRENDER. THE CZAR AND ELECTIVE ASSEMBLY. Seven hundred and forty of the Kniaz Potemkin’s mutineers have Surrendered at Kiistendji, arid receiving a guarantee of safely, landed after diving the vessel’s treasury chest. It is reported that the seamen on the Russian vessels interned at Manila are sullen, and sympathise with the crew of the Kniai Potemkin. Owing to a rumour that their intentions are murderous, an American warship is watching them, tine hundred abd fifty mutineers have been incarcerated. Drought threatens many Russian provinces. The worst reports come from Moscow, Novgorod, Tver, Pekov. Ink, Kursk, and Klicrsorb

M. Shipoft has been ottered the position of Minister for the Interior. Me will accept if the Czar guarantees freedom to the press. The Sultan sent two cruisers to the entrance of the Bosphorus, where they mounted heavy guns on the forts. This Russia had hitherto prevented on the plea that such a step would imply distrust of Russia.

The Czar received a deputation representing the nobility and zemstvos of Moscow, Orel, Novgorod, n«d other places, which urged continuation of the war and organisation on historic lines of an elective Legislative Assembly. His Majesty remarked that the State was only strong and solid if it religiously preserved old tranditions. Perhaps God was-punishing the country for sinning in that respect. Expericncc would show how to remove defects and errors that would occur in the great work that is projected tor the welfare of his subject.