Affairs in Russia.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42752, 25 July 1905, Page 2

Affairs in Russia.

[By Telegraph—Press Association] St Petersburg, July 23. A Jew threw a bomb at Bielstock. near Warsaw, seriously wounding R Pietenken, chief of police, Three others were killed. St. Petersburg, July 24. The Czar accompanied by the Grand Duke Michae’, and the Alexandrovitcli left. Peterbof on Sunday to meet the Kaiser at Borgo, in the Gulf of Finland, Extraordinary seorecy is observed in regard to the meeting. It. is believed the Kaiser desired the interview wishing to personally convinoe the Czar of the sincerity of the German policy towards If ussia.

After the Zemstvo’s Congress closed the majority of constitutional members decided to elect a committee by which an olabora e programme prepared in conjuuctiou with the professional longue’s view of forming one great constitutional democratic party, When General Kozloff was asked why ho did not suppress Congress, he replied, I received ordira to do so, but could not enforce thorn. Authorities report that bad crops j are expected in various districts of 26 I Russian provinces. !