RUSSIAN TROUBLES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2767, 8 April 1890, Page 3

RUSSIAN TROUBLES.

j (BY KLKOTKICTKLKGRAPH.—COPYKICHT.) '■"ST. Pktkrsborc, April 4. It is asserted that the rumours that the Czar was iiijurecLby,.aufassassin are false, and his alleged illness is officially denied. . It is believed that the mass of the Russian nation are staunchly loyal. The students' agitation, has been renewed at St. Petersburg. * St Moscfwl, fifteen students are 1 , * being Wie'd 'for"political'febelliort. At Gharkoff, further arrests, followed by ' expulsion, have taken : place.,' .;;'"' ~" ''"., . / , o The Czar has abandoned!, the pro-, posed hunting expedition in Poland, ." because he was war tied that the train ..vfpuld be derated. : .... ~.,.-.,. ' "The Academies are supporting the demand of the Universities that the new obnqxjous statutes should be repealed, freedom 1 of meeting in clubs allowed, and a University Court established, from which the police should be excluded!' ■ , The leaders of the movement in! St. Petersburg are being exiled to Siberia. , /, The Press has been forbidden to ' mention that they demanded the release of their comrades. The Czar is alarmed at the disaffectiorTa)no|gsfc tfie. officers of-the array. s "* ''• ". ; •: -i ; ~- /, . •' April o.; The Czar has abandoned his annual visit to Gatschina, owing to the pdiscovefy ;ol bofijbs iti the vicinity ■ k di the palace. '"'lt is suspected that the Czar's illness is assumedin order to avoid appearance in public. -■■■■- The St. Petersburg prisons are crowded with students arrested in connection with the recent disturbance. Many of, those arrested have been deported -to a distance' and * some of the leaders have been forced into the army in Central Asia. The studentsfdisclaimthat: theirs is a political agitation, but that they have taken up the cudgels against scholastic harshness. The directors „pf the rioters include sons of some of .thov'highest families in Russia. The,, Czar "threatens to>. close 'the higher ; scholastic institutions for a yeaxV •■''■ Several* of the professors who were, censured have , resigned, in sympathy with the students. The excitement is now decreas.,'ing./ ■■ ;; ■)// ■ .■•■■'/._.; . .■_..: < The Czar is slightly indisposed, having suffered a relapse from >an attack of iniuenza. . The students at St. Petersburg assembled, and sang . the national anthem; to indicate'their loyalty.