SOME EXILE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3234, 7 May 1917, Page 2

SOME EXILE.

Madame Catherine Breshkovskaya, " Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," arrived at Moscow last month from Minusink, Siberia, after spending 44 years of her 73 years as a convict, prisoner, and exile in the wastes of Northern Asia. She met with an enthusiastic welcome and was formally received by the Committee of Social Organisation. She replied in a speech in which she made a moving appeal for books and educational facilities to be extended to the masses of the people. Soldiers and members of the committee carried her into the street after the nieoting. Madame Breshkovskaya was first imprisoned in the '70s as a member of the Terrorist Society, Land and Freedom. Thereafter she was dragged from prison to prison and from convict settlement to convict settlement until, as silo declares: " I knew the. interiors of 30 prisons as intimately as a monk knows his roll." She escaped twice and was released after the revolt which took plnce during the war with Japan Sb;e was afterwr/'ds denounced by the notorious police spy AzefF, and again sent into exile.

The Board of Trade, is " going to Auckland to resume its inquiry rcgardPftg the shortage, or the approaching shortage, of white _ pine timber. The, timber is essential to the dairy industries, as it is the only timber that, is \ised for the casing ol butter and cheese,. Says the, Dmiedin Star: It is enough' to say that the expenditure on intoxicating liquors in New Zealand is so great that it, represents'the biggest single item of extravagance of the people are guilty. Officially the expenditure is, in round figures, £4,000,000 a year. In reality it; was claimed to be "nearer £10,000,000.

LOCAL AND GENERAL