RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9309, 6 March 1907, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

OPENING OF THE DUMA.

THE GOVERNMENT PROMISE REFORM MEASURES.

[press association.] (Received March 6, 9 aum.)

ST. PETERSBURG, March 5.

The Duma has been opened. The Metropolitan of St. Beteisburg bias appealed to members to forget their differences and work for the welfaase- of th© suffering country. Throng* in 'the streets -greeted the delegates with shouts of an amnesty. -The second Duma is considered your-ger and more democratic and less educated than the first. Stolypin, Premier, stated that a long list of reform bills of great magnitude and importance is ready for introduction. The Czar's absence from the cteiremony is considered, ominous. Th© Socialists and Constitutional Democrats counsel prudence and moderation.

Armored automobiles have been brought to St. Petersburg to suppress street rxotsi