RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8256, 9 October 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE DOuKEKS' STRIKE.

Received Ootobar 8,j(8.55 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October"?. The riooKers' strike at Odessa has resulted in their favour.

.BOMBS SEIZED,

Received October 8, 8.55 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 7,

Bombs have been seized in \ the Students' Library at Odessa, containing wadding saturated with hydrocyanic acid which would kill everyone who was wounded by them.

"TOE BLACK HUNDRED."

Received October 8 8.55 a.m

ST. PETERSBURG, October 7

M. Perushkievitoh, chief of the "Black Hundred," asserts that the organisation consists of three million members pledged to sacrifice everything in defenoe of au orthodox Czar and a pure Russian nationality.

CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS

CONGRESS AT.JHELSINGFOR

Reoeived October 8, 9.44 p.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, Oot. 7.

Five huadred delegates attended the Constitutional Democrats Congress at Helaingfors. The congress endorsed the manifesto adopted at the previous Viborg Congress, and considered the circumstances unfavourable for immediately applying passive resistance on a large scale, especially with regard to the military service. The prov.noial delegates did not agree that an immediate boycott with regard to taxes and conscription was impossible. It was decided tc collect money for the relief of Siberian exiles who are enduring terrible hardships. ,

DEATH OP A GENERAL,

Reoeived October 8, 8.44 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Oot. 8. General Starynkevitoh has died of blood poisoning as the result of a wound "caused by a bomb whiob was thrown at him in Sienbirsk.

A COURTMARTIAL,

Received October 8, 9.44 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 8. Tin triahof Admiral Niebognaroff and the onptains and crews of his squadron is proceeding at Kronstadt. The oharpe is that the warships were surrenderor at the battle of Tsushima without fighting.

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.

ReceivediOotober 9, 12.44 a.m. BT. PETERSBURG, uot 8. The Russian newspaper lovarisoh asserts that an embezzlement has been discovered in the railway department amounting tc £2,300.000.