RUSSIA.

North Otago Times, 15 January 1906, Page 2

RUSSIA.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copfi'iglit-) (Pet Press Association.) "Received' Jan; 13, at 8.36 a.m. Si Petersburg, Jan. 12. M. Kalinattovitd), lawyer, was arrested while conducting tho -tlelencQ ol M, Hog, danovitch's •assassins, who were taken lout of the Court and shot under Kalmano viteh's' prison window. A bomb thrown from an Armenian seminary at Tiflis wounded the patrol. The artillery bombarded the building, which was 'burnt to the ground. The bombs anil cartridges on the: premises meanwhile exploded, 33' persons being killed and ■ 300 wounded. The Russian troops recaptured Noyorossjysk 1 ffom tlie revolutionaries. 'A bread (amine exists at Tiflis. The Yice-Qovcrnor ol Irkutsk w wounded during a revolutionary outbreak, and the thief of police killed.

Received Jan. 14, at 4.51 p.m. _ St, Petersburg, Jan. 13. ; Many, revolutionaries-have been ..arrest*, ed at Novo Minsk. ........ ■ Advices: from: Tiflis. state that the .-.authorities have inaugurated a rcipi of terror. . The people, arc being shot down and their houses bombarded [ French-bankers >.who. provided the loan are alarmed at the Russian reformers, wlio-'forcscc: a contlnutaice of the reaction' as - Ion?, as the war chest , is ' replenished. " Bank has been :cmnowered to" issue'fifteen million sterling l iir notcs.j Tho newspaper Molva- remarks that since the note limit has been raised to forty-fivo N millions ' sterling tho recent

issue- of v forty - million ■ bonds convertible into gold, .practically exhausts llio gold icscrvo. 1 _ -~ Tlio Lithuanians hare risen at Kovna, I ami five punitive columns have Iwcn Kent thorc,