RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8185, 17 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

' THE DUMA. THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONGRES3. ITS CHIEF OBJECT. Reoeived July>l6, 8.44 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 15. The Duma has accepted the invitation issued by 32b members of the British House of Commons to be represented at the inter Parliamentary Congress, whicb is to meet in London on July 23rd. The chief object of tbe congress is to piomote peaoe.

MESSAGE in* THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Received July 16, 9.21 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 16.' Professor Mouromtzeff, on behalf of the Duma, has telegraphed to the British House of Commons that the Duma is deeply touched with the good Reeling, shown by the oldes*" Parliament to tbe youneest Parliament. (On July 6tb nearly three hundred members of the British Parliament signed a brief but cordial cablegram of goodwill to the Bussian Duma). FAMINE RELIEF MEASURES. MINISTERIAL BILL REJECTED. DUMA'S PROPOSAL APPROVED OF. Received July 16, 9.21 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 15. Tbe Council of the Empire has rejected tbe Ministerial Bill for tbe alleviation of tbe distress oaused by the famine, and has approved of the Duma's proposal for providing fifteen million roubles for immediate relief. DEVASTATION OF ESTATES. LANDOWNERS FLEEING.

Reoeived July 16, 9.21 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July }6. Peasants are causing terrible devastation of estates in £tbe government of Voronezo. The landowners are fleeing, THE POLITICAL SITUATION. RESIGNATION OFTHE PREMIER HOURLY EXPECTED. PROBABLE FORMATION OF A NEW CABINET. Received July 16, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, July 16. The Times St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the resignation of M. Goremykin, the Premier,, is expected hourly. A meeting of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Demoorats was hurriedly convened on Sunday morning. After aseoret session, lasting some hours, the* leading members departed for an unknown destination. It is believed'that they have been summoned to Poterhof, to discuss the formation of a Cabiuet.