RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8333, 16 January 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA.

I AN' IMPENDING LOAN. THE CZAR'S PILOT BALLOON. Received January 15, 8.13 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14, Russia is coming on the market for a loan of over twenty millions sterling. An autograph letter from the Czar to M. Kokovtsoff, Minister of Finance, refers to the improved financial ! condition of Russia, jg THE RAID AT OKHTA. PLOT AGAINST COUNT WITTE. Received January 15, 8.30 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan."l 4. The raid at Okhta, near St. Petersburg, was due to an/Anafchist plot on Count Witte's life. BURGLARY AT KERTCH, SHORT SHRIFT FOR THE ROBBERS. Received January 15, 8.40 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. . Armed burglars at Kertch, in the Crimea,- broke into the residence of Mrs Hamilton and Miss Garston, her niece, {two English visitors. After assaulting the ladies and nearly throttling them, they stole a large sum of money and much jewellery, and decamped without waking the servants; Thirty-nine men were captured in connection with the affair. Several of them were identified as the jobbers, and were sentenced to be shot. . THE TREASURY FOBBED, . Received January 15, 9.5 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. A Treasury cashier at Aulieata, in Russian Central' Asia, absconded with £37,400 sterling. feg^j DISAPPEARANCE OF MACHINE GUNS. —■' "]f ■ Received January 15, 10.59 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 15. Eight machine guns have disappeared£from the fortress at Tashklent. Revolutionaries are suspected of stealing them. THE BUREAUCRATIC SYSTEM. Received January 15, 10.5 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 15. M. Stolypin, interviewed, stated that the Czar has resolved to renounce the bureaucratic system if the Duma will co-operate with him. -