RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 15 January 1907, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

CHIEF OF POLICE MURDERED. REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE POLICE. St. PKTEUM;n;ii, JMiliary 13. AI. Bresgesnivoski, Chief of Police in the Dazestan province of Cmcasia, was murdered. The assassin escaped. A strong force of police raided l!ie Okhto quarter of St PctefaburK in llie night, ami capture! three rev dutiimariei. Tlie taller fought with revolvers anil drove the lwlice out of the courtyard. They escaped after killing a ]))li«maii.

the premiers he form Policy. PRAISED 13Y TilE CZAR. Received 11, y.'JL p.m. St. Petebsiipeu, January 11. The Czar, in a rescript, claims that M. Stolypiu's energetic action ha< effected a distinct improvement n public order, daspilc the foolhardy crimes of revolutionaries, wlrcii were designed to throw the Government into confusion. The Czar c.'ai ns the credit of instituting numerous reforms before the Douma assembled.

FAILURE OF HARVESTS. EXTENSIVE GOVERNMENT RELIEF. APPEAL FOR PIIIVAI'i CHARITY. Beccived 11,10.1) p.m. St. Petebsiiuro, January 14. Owing to had harvests, the Russian Government proposes to spend seven million one hundred and lifty-seven thousand pounds, supplying peasants with bread and seed. The Government declare there is a wide field for private charity.