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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CUBAN PORTS COMPANY 



The long standing contest over the bonds of 

 the Ports Improvement Company of Cuba has 

 been settled, the report of the committee ap- 

 pointed to study the matter having been 

 approved by President Menocal. The rep- 

 resentatives of the bondholders also have 

 agreed to the committee's report. 



By the agreement the bondholders will re- 

 ceive fifteen-year 5% Cuban Government 

 bonds in lieu of the securities they now hold, 

 and they will forfeit all claims for unpaid 

 interest. The Ports Improvement Company 

 was formed under a concession granted by the 

 Gomez Administration to clean and dredge 

 the ports of the island. It was to receive a 

 certain percentage of the revenues paid to the 

 Government on merchandise entering Cuba, 

 and its $7,000,000 bond issue was sold princi- 

 pally in the United States and England. When 

 President Menocal entered offi.ce he canceled 

 the concession. Protests were made and the 

 Cuban Government agreed to make some 

 provision for the purchasers of the bonds. 



IMMIGRATION 



A commission of the .Association of Land- 

 owners of Cuba will present a resolution 

 adopted by them for the augmentation of im- 

 migration from the north of Spain and the 

 Canary Islands. The commission represents 

 seventy sugar centrals. The resolution fol- 

 lows: 



"Each member who represents a central 

 will give one thousand dollars and two and a 

 half cents for each one hundred arrobas of 

 cane that is ground. As a voluntary gift they 

 will pay two and a half cents for each one 

 hundred arrobas that are grown by the colo- 

 nos (farmers)." 



CLAIM AGAINST GOVERNMENT 



The Havana Hotel Company has_ filed with 

 the government a claim for $13,727.33 for^^the 

 lands at Prado and Animas streets taken by 

 the government in condemnation proceedings. 



CONSTANCIA SUGAR CO. 



The Government has granted to the Con- 

 stancia Sugar Co. a year's extension for the 

 commencement of construction on the Jaque- 

 ta dock at Caibarien. 



GENERAL J. M. GOMEZ. 



General Jose Miguel Gomez, who ^has 

 been confined in the national penitentiary, 

 awaiting trial as chief of the seditious up- 

 rising against the Cuban government last 

 February, has been taken to his country place, 

 Finca America, near Calabazar. 



In accordance with strict orders of the Sec- 

 retary of Government, only the ex-President's 

 immediate family are to be permitted to see 

 him, and he will remain in his country resi- 

 dence under guard. 



SPANISH SUBJECTS 



There will be organized in Havana, Santi- 

 ago, Matanzas and Cienfuegos consular com- 

 mittees for recruiting. Those Spaniards 

 inscribed in Havana will have direct partici- 

 pation in the naming of two members of the 

 committee. 



The Spanish government, by a recent royal 

 order, has decided to organize in Havana and 

 in the cities of Santiago de Cuba, Matanzas 

 and Cienfuegos, consular committees for the 

 recruiting of Spanish subjects, provided for in 

 Article 17 of the existing law of recruiting in 

 the army. 



Each of these committees will be presided 

 over by the Spanish consul at these towns 

 with six assistants each, consisting of two 

 from the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, two 

 appointed by the Spanish minister and the 

 other two by election. 



The Spanish government will vote a credit 

 to pay the salaries of the doctors who will be 

 employed in examining the recruits for send- 

 ing them to Spain. — Havana Post. 



FLIES 



The Havana Bureau of Sanitation has 

 established prizes of 130 and $20 to be 

 awarded monthly, for the person bringing in 

 the greatest quantity of dead flies to the office 

 of the Bureau of Disinfection. 



The contest wiU be conducted along the 

 most business-like lines, each aspirant for 

 the prizes being given a page in the Disinfec- 

 tion Bureau's Dead Fly Ledger, where opposite 

 his name and date, the quantity of flies 

 brought in will be indicated. 



The Kational Council of Sanitation also 

 announces prizes for designs of a simple and 

 efficient fly trap. 



