Show GOLD SCARCE IN RUSSIA st petersburg june 10 instructions have been iven to the banks to pay as much as possible in paper just the opposite of M witted instructions on introducing the gold currency when the difficulty was to get gold into circulation in the country A police official who wished to draw s thousand coubles roubles in gold to pay his men was told recently he must take paper hie imperial committee of inquiry into the finances of russia is still sitting but has ifft yet arrived at the simple viz that russia is living beyond her means however in view of the possibility of outbreak of war in the near and far east the russian government is even now hesitating to spend some of the votes of the 1903 budget no one ht the admiralty knows whether there will be any new ships laid down or not |