"HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 21 March 1908, Page 3

"HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR"

o The I!u-sian revolutionaries ],ave been taking leave- out of Captain Kuepcuick's book, and tlie predatory cNploits of the Anarchists of Southern Kussia have of Lite Ihm-u marked occasionally by really brilliini audacity, -lu-t at lue-eut the j il'i--ian [Kilice in the neighbourhood i I : Ode--a are gritting their teeth in im- ;>• tent rage over a peculiarly audaciou-roblK-rv committed recent Iv at tin: Vala-e' oi" the Aiviibi-h"p of I'odolia. Ai«-ir,t til-,.-.- week- ago. iv appear-, thai -iil.i-li e.-.-ived a leit,-i- purporting to i„- -i-m-l by the "District tomniilto ■d Anarchi-M ..mmunr-t-.' and d-ma'cl in-: a tribute ~i ti.omi. 11,.• |.-ti.-r ai!tn..ri-e.i cui-ar- ' «..ui.l call up m the arehbi-hop i"r the money. The letter tt.l- Jt once placed in the ban.is of the police, and the matter leporled to the lonenior of the jirovinee. wiio furnished a guard of ten soldiers and a noiKonimi—ioned ollicer for the protection of the archiepiscopal palace, and piomi-c.l to be on the premises himself <n the d.iv appoiu'ed by the anarehi-is 1.-..-.;.. ill Vv.-:'., ;.--■ <:-... (..nenioy L.li:. of ~.iu- .;n ::e.: i<a ■.■ ■ d.-iii ■.■ Ii;, to til.. Oil,-, "i .- JTii ■'•t.-l I: . ■ v.-eiv 'duly -e.lte.l by tie- -.Hard- lb''' ...,:.ird a:..:: -aluting. Aid'er h.i;fh..iir pa-cd. and tl •■'■■•'■'■ of Hie -.';:. ii.l wen! into the pabic- to -[>•-,k with Hi- l'.niiU"iie.-. The ~r hbi-hop w.i- found Uund and iMg-ed in an i :, ii.iir in hi- private •-.tl>iti-i. and hi■lta'.laiii an.! hou-ca-U -rvaut-. roped in.) gagged, had Wll locked ill tili'.ian. l-'roiu ill- ar. hbi-hop'- lie. k . i- -M-pcedcd a h-avv bag. the weigh' of chi-h had diagged 111- le-a.j d-Hli tr.i'-tb lei' to o,i-p out a warning to I 1".,,,!.'",,'.'-' ','.■ c-oi'la,.-.'!. Tin- bag v:.-s I ieni'o.e,i very giug.ilv. and after being j inirn-r-e! f..i- -oni. !.-ur- in water, ii - I content- v.-are -\ nnir,.--!. with t':.e v<- ; -alt that tie-', were foiled t- l.e milling | 1,,,.,,-,. ,| :„..,, r.ei- 'ban silvr -and and i ';■ bi- round tlm!. A- Wi-i o- ;-l-!ii; ...te-ed. "II- I: ; . : had ■ .in.d 'f.iii !.n'■.■-:■ _<"_ tin- .-.'■-;. •h-V ,'.-.V!,..r. !!• i I'd - lived ;'., j.. j I -'ard.d. fo; :', ■ air,, v. -1 -a-b. i-w-- ■'- : ' 1 TV. am! -da-.- worth ncirlv .':1..-,fm. ' ' ."lid lei' i'l -o„t rived to eVlde e,;,- jl S( >veii 'l.oii-av-i !'.rbi-a .-.,1.;. .-• . ~,--. j , on an average, '-on at. -a. ev-iy year. ,