THE CUBA R E \" 1 E W 



By decree of the secretary of agriculture, 

 tlie time set for the rectifications in the 

 cattle registry for the province of Santa 

 Clara, Camaguey and (.)rienic, which ex- 

 pired September 1st last, has been ex- 

 tended to March 1, 1912. 



.\ group of about 100 students gathered 

 in Cienfuegos November 27th and called 

 upon all the Spanish societies, requesting 

 them to lower their flags on their buildings 

 to half mast, in observance of the anni- 

 versary of the shooting of the medical 

 students in Havana. 



The sickness, which occurred at Banes, 

 Oriente Province, recently, among some 

 Spanish workmen, which at first was be- 

 lieved to be yellow fever, turned out upon 

 official exaniination to be grippe with 

 jineumonia complication. 



An orator at Cruces has been sentenced 

 to six months' imprisonment for an attack 

 upon President Gomez in a recent socialist 

 meeting. 



Dr. Juan de Dios Carcia Kuhly was ap- 

 pointed minister to Holland. The new 

 appointee is a brilliant lawyer and was se- 

 lected for his special knowledge of inter- 

 national law. 



Dr. Carlos Finlay. the distinguished 

 Cuban yellow fever expert, was elected a 

 corresponding member of the French 

 Academy of Medicine November 8th. 



A company has been organized to build 

 a new theater in Camaguey. The comoany 

 has a capital of $60,000. 



Monsieur de Clercq. who several months 

 ago was named as French Minister to 

 Venezuela, was a few weeks ago trans- 

 ferred to Havana as minister to Cuba. 



Two more Boston fishing schooners 

 have been sold and will be taken to Cuba 

 to engage in the red snapper fisheries there. 

 Each is equipped witli an auxiliary motor 

 and in the holds are large tanks to be used 

 to keep the fish alive after being netted. 



Swedish newspapers so strongly opposed 

 the emigration of the people from that 

 Country to Cuba, that Cuban immigration 

 agents now in Sweden will forego all 

 further efforts. 



The Swedish immigrants with families 

 were to be given farms by Sir William 

 Van Home along the line of the Cuba 

 Railroad, the Cuban government to pay 

 transportation charges and necessary farm 

 implements. 



Orders have been issued to the owners 

 of lands at the foot of Atares hill, Havana 

 harbor, to fill the marshes there with 

 stone or other dry material. An inspection 

 there has shown that these lands form a 

 great place for the breeding of mosquitoes. 



Miguel Alberque, a Cuban, has been de- 

 ported from the Republic of Ecuador on 

 the charge of being a pernicious foreigner. 



Rigid inspection rules will be enforced 



against all vessels arriving from Europe 



because of the prevalence of cholera in 



France, Italy and Spain. 



The Supreme Court heard November 

 22d some new arguments advanced on the 

 second appeal taken by Major Andre 

 against the ports improvement act. The 

 first appeal, which was argued November 

 11th, was ruled out of order by the court 

 on the ground that the law had not been 

 applied in the case in question. This time 

 the attorney for the appellant tried to 

 have the court hand down a ruling on the 

 law. 



In accordance with the international 

 agreement between the American nations, 

 Cuba will promptly notify all the other 

 countries of the existence of any cases of 

 j'ellow fever. The policy of Cuba is to 

 spare no money in fighting the disease, and 

 not to hide the fact of its existence, as has 

 been done by other nations. 



The ^lanufacturers' and Producers' As- 

 sociation of Knoxville, Tenn., is contem- 

 plating a trip to Havana, with representa- 

 tives of the Manufacturers' Association of 

 Chattanooga. 



An invitation has been received from 

 President Gomez, Vice-President Zayas. 

 Governor Asbert and Mayor Cardenas to 

 visit the city. The trip will be made in 

 January or February. 



No cyclones visited Cuba this season. 

 Experienced observers say that not in many 

 years, at least eighteen, has a cyclone oc- 

 curred in Cuba later than October 19th. 

 the date of the great cyclone of 1906. and 

 never within the period during which 

 records have been kept has ? cyclone oc- 

 curred later than October 30th, after which 

 date, seemingly, cyclones are impossil»le 

 in Cuba. 



Solis, the bandit, has defied the authori- 

 ties for about three years. He must have 

 received in this time in ransoms sums 

 aggregating $40,000. The rural guards 

 have made strenuous efforts to capture . 

 liim, but always without success. 



Bernarda Toro de Gomez, the widow of 

 General Maximo Gomez, the commander- 

 in-chief of the Cuban Army of Liberation, 

 died November 29th from paralysis at her 

 home in Havana. President Gomez at- 

 tended the funeral in person and was one 

 of the pall bearers. The line of the fu- 

 neral march to Colon Cemetery was cov- 

 ered by two regiments of infantry, and 

 military honors were rendered by a squa- 

 dron of the rural guard. 



