RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13144, 28 November 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE BEOENT UKASE.

PEASANTS AS FREEHOLDERS.

United Prew A»»«tii»u«»ii—P«r Electric. T»l«ijrrftph - (Vpvnirot ,ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 25: The Czar's -ukase recently cabled abolishing .the • obligatory- character of village communes has "been issued. It enables the-peasants to become, freeholders of allotment* occupied at the date of emancipation, and the redemption of dues thereon ceases, at the*-end oi, December. These reforms require i£her Duma's ratification. The ukase one of the most r •vital Teforms 'promised in M. Stolypirfe ministerial declaration. ■ \ < LONDON, November 26. i lhe St. Petersburg correspondent of the " Times" says that while there is non reason to apprehend opposition on this' point, there is a prospect of the Ministerial ■ 'majority dwindling owing to a system of i repression unexampled even in Plehve's days. DESPERATE BOMB THROWER. ' SENTENCES ON MUTINEERS. Received 9.46 p.m., November 27th. ST! PETERSBURG, November 27. A bomb was thrown harmlessly at General Danidoff at Theodosia. The man who threw the bomb repeatedly fired at a police sergeant who was pursuing him. , He was ultimately arrested and declared himself to be an Austrian, and that he was obeying the instructions of social revolutionaries. Of two hundred 1 and seventy Sebastopol mutineers, one ■was sentenced to be hangedV two to be shot,; three to penal servitude for life," others to various sentences, and 1 thirty-eight were acquitted l .^