RUSSIAN DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81859, 6 October 1906, Page 2

RUSSIAN DISORDERS.

♦ SOLDIERS ATTEND REVOLUTIONARY MEETINGS. St. Petersburg, October 4. Advices from various sources show that daily revolutionary meetings are ■ield at Riga, at wliich 20 or 30 so'deis attend. The spokesman at one meeting said that the garrison declare that the ;i tm y must rise simultaneously with the city proletariat and the peasant.

TEN WOULD-BE ROBBEES AEEESTED. "^ MOEE BOMBS SEIZED. St. Petebbbubo, October 4, Ten persons were arrested at St. Petersburg for a daring attempt to rob a Customs messenger carrying the departmental salaries, after a sharp coodiet. Forty bombs and two pounds of dynamite were found in the student's library at the State engineering institute. The owner of the bombs was a student named Fink, who was arrested, Seventy unfilled bombs and 200 re. reivers were seized elsewhere. THE CZAE AT PETEBHOF.

-BOMB OUTEAGES. Eeceiyed 5,10.2 p,m, St, Petebsbubg, October 6. The Czar and family are at Peterhof. A bomb at Simbirsk wounded General Starynkevitch, Governor; jencral, seriously. His assailant escaped. A bomb at Tiilis killed an officer, tnd wounded several. Ten terrorists at Czenstonkhowawero condemned and snot. ' -.. EXECUTION OF MUTINEERS. THE FINANCIAL POSITION. >si MILLION DEFICIT. FINANCE MINISTER'S PROPOSALS.' Received 6th, 1.15 a.m. St. Petersburg-, October 5. It is semi-offkialty announced that ~\ the sailors at Kronstadt executed the sontence on nineteen of the mutineers. Paris, October 5. Le Temp's Viborg correspondent states that M. Kokorteoff, Minister of Finance, in a confidential report to M. Stolypin, the Premier, estimating- the deficit at 154 million sterling on the current year, declares it is due to various Departments recklessly exceeding the estimates. He asks that the report be submitted to the CzaV, and that the latter be urged to allow Departments, particularly the War Office, to withdraw or reduce any demands, admitting of postponement.