RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8221, 27 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

WHOLESALE ROBBERIES. LONDON, August 24. Reuter's Agenoy states that hundreds of thousands of roubles are stolen daily from railway stations, trains, banks, and factories. The sum of 1,400 roubles were stolen from the goods station at Kazan. "police'emissaries murdered. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Several police emissaries have been murdered in various parts of Russia. [PURCHASE OF LAND BY PEASANTS. Received August 26, 4.37 p.m. 'LONDON, August 25. According to the Tribune peasants have, since November last, purchased on the instalment system, through the Imperial Peasant Land Bank, land amounting to five million sterling. There has been a great rush for land during the past fortnight, but whether instalments will be forthcoming hereafter is problematical. • Received August 26, 4.57 p.m. S r. PETERSBURG, August 25. A teleeram states that the authorities, apparently preparatory to the establishment of a military dictatorship, are despatching enormous quantities of ammunition to Poland aud the Caucasus. EMIGRATION CF JEWS. Received August 26, 4.37 p.m. LONDON, August 25. The Standard states that 250,000 Jews, mainly from Southern and South-western Russia, have emigrated during the first half of the present year, as oompared with 183,622 for the whole of last year. TWO MUTINOUS BATTALIONS. ' A MAIL ROBBERY. £14,840 STOLEN. , Received Augusts, 4.37 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Two sapper battalions at Moroyookaj near Odessa, are mutinous. They have decided, if summoned against the revolutionaries, that they will not fire upon them, Upon opening the marl bag, which originally contained registered packages for St. Petersburg from Erivan, it was discovered that £14,840 sterling had been abstracted and packages of lead substituted. The seals were intaot. TERRIBLE BOMB EXPLOSION. CENTRE OP A HOUSE BLOWN OUT. I TWENTY-THREE PEOPLE KILLED. THE PREMIER'S NARROW ESCAPE. Received August 27, 1.5 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Augutit 27. A terrible bou.b explosion oo- ■ cured, to-day, whereby a large num- ' ber of people lost their lives. j M. Stolypin, the Premier, was I holding a reception st a villa at Apothecary Island. The rooms were crowded. Four men drove up in a carriage and pair. Two were dressed asjoffioeis. One of the men, carrying a bomb in a helmet, dropped it accident, ally in the ante ohamber. A terrible explosiop followed. The whole of the centre of the house was blown out. Twenty-three people were killed, inoiuding all the four conspirators. Twenty-seven were injured. M. Stolypin's 15 year-old daughter, who was upstairs, had both legs shattered. They had to be amputated. The girl afterwards suooumbed. An infant son of the Premier's had his leg broken. M. Dandoff, Count Chamberiaia, and General Koostoff, ex-Governor of Penza, were killed M. Stolypin was uninjured, though the door of his room was torn from its hingeß.