AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2370, 29 May 1906, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

BOMB OUTRAGES. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED. TWO OF THE THROWERS ARRESTED. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. St. Petersburg, May 28. A bomb was thrown at the Governor and Chief of Police at iiflis while they were driving through the streets. They escaped, uninjured, but a Cossack was killed. After the Te Deum, yesterday, in honour of the anniversary of the Coronation, a review of the troops was held in the Square at Sebastopol. A number of bombs were thrown. Three people were killed, and many wounded. Two of the throwers were arrested.

OLD METHODS OF REPRESSION TO BE ADHERED TO.

St. Petersburg, May 28. M. Goremykin has declared that the proposed agrarian solution was unconditionally inadmissible, and

< that Ministerial responsibility was A outside the Duma’s competency. , M. Goremykin has unequivocally disclosed the intention of the Ministry to adhere to the old methods of repression.

Correspondents show that the Ministry has constituted itself a wall between the Sovereign and the people. But as the Czar displaced Count Witte in order to avoid immediate conflict with the Duma, M. Goremykin is likely to share the same fate. THE DUMA. (Received this day at 8.34 a.m.) St. Petersburg, May 28. The Duma's group of toilers, which were originally imbued with socialism. are now swamped by peasant members, which comprise over 100 representatives of labour.