UNREST IN RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 1
Three thousand arrests have been made in St. Petersburg alone in connection with the recent rioting. The military are kept constantly under arms at Moscow, Kharkov, and Odessa.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 3. In the riots at St. Petersburg on March 24th 35 students were killed.
The Czar has ordered a public retrial of the student Karpovitsh, who was sentenced to 21 years' imprisonment for shooting M. Bogoliepoff, Minister of Public Instruction.
The Bannockburn correspondent of the Alexandra Herald states that Mr Thoioas Toms had a narrow escape from poisoning last week He had taken a, drink of water from a small spring, and soon afterwards ho became ill and commenced vomiting. Examination of the Fpring disclosed the fact that the putrifying bodies of several rabbits poisoned by toxa weie in the water.
The signatures of the owner? of several blocks of land in the Taupo district ha\e now been secured to the puic^ase of land by the Totara Syndicate, which open? the way to the starting of an industry of considerable importance to Taupo. A light railway is to be built of a permanent character to carry the totara to Rotorua, thus connecting Taupo with the colonial railway system.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 7
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