RUSSIA.
THE GOVERNMENT'S EXTRAVAGANCE.
CHARGES IGNORED BY A
MINISTER.
Received June 27, 9.11 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 26
M. Stelypin, Minister of the Interior, speaking in the Duma, ostentatiously declined to uotice the remarks of previous speaKers on the Left criticising the Government's extravagance in army expenditure and peoulation in the distribution of famine relief. < The Minister sat down amidst cries of "Resign." It was stated during the debate that a sum of £8,000,000 sterling was expended in relief in 24 provinces after the failure of tho crops in 1905. A famine of a less serious nature is said to bo in prospect. ESCAPE OP MUTINEERS. DETECTIVES SHOT. ARTILLERYMEN ANjp ENGINEERS MUTINY. Reoeived Jane 27, 9.40 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 26. Seventy-eight mutineers have escaped from a prison in Sevastopol. Three additional deteotives been shot dead at Warsaw. The artillerymen aud engineers at Batoum have mutinied. The Cossaoks have surrounded them, but no fighting has yet taken place. Many inhabitants have fled.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8170, 28 June 1906, Page 5
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