THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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COL. ORESTES FERRARA RESIGNS. 



Col. Orestes Ferrara, lately secretary -ri 

 the Cuban delegation to the peace congress, 

 has tendered his resignation to Gov. Ma- 

 goon, June 26, says the N. Y. World. Gov. 

 Magoon cabled to him, he said, that he re- 

 gretted his action and acceded to his re- 

 quest only at his insistent demand. 



It was officially stated at the headquarters 

 of the Italian delegation that no step against 

 Col. Ferrara had been taken by them. They 

 said they did not know whether the Italian 

 Government had taken any action in the 

 matter. 



Col. Ferrara is counsel to the Italian Le- 

 gation and Consulate at Havana. He left 

 Italy, his native land, at the age of nine- 

 teen. He became a Cuban citizen in 1900, 

 and published in Spanish a pamphlet In 

 Paris on the "Influence of Political Econ- 

 omy on Sociology." The Italian authorities 

 regarded the statements in the pamphlet as 

 being seditious and Col. Ferrara was sen- 

 tenced in contumacium to six months' im- 

 prisonment. He only heard of the sentence 

 two years after it had been pronounced. 



Three years ago the sentence was an- 

 nulled. 



MIGUELISTAS CONVOKE THE NATIONAL CON- 

 VENTION. 



"The execuiive committee, reiterating 

 the delegates elected by the provincial con- 

 vention," met recently and approved the lol- 

 lowing motion : 



"The executive committee, re-iterating 

 the resolution adopted on April 3, convokes 

 the de'elgates elected by the provincial con- 

 ventions, to assemble in this city on July 

 19, to constitute the national convention, in 

 accordance with the party's rules." 



There were no Zayistas present. 



The executive crnmittee of the national 

 convention of the Liberal party consists of 

 twenty-two members, exactly half of whom 

 are for Jose Miguel, the other half for 

 Zayas. 



ROAD WANTED TO EL COBRE. 



Archbishop Barnada, of Santiago de 

 Cuba, has presented to Governor Magoon a 

 request that a road be built from the city 

 of Santiago de Cuba to the mining village 

 of El Cobre, an improvement sorely needed 

 by the villagers. 



A NEW MAP OF CUBA. 



Charles Hernandez, director of communi- 

 cations of Cuba, has had made a new map 

 of Cuba, showing all the means of com- 

 munication in the island, including land, 

 railroad, messenger, cable, telegraph, mad 

 and wireless telegraph. The immense map 

 is the work of the engineers and draughts- 

 men of the Postoffice department. 



CONTINUED AMERICAN OCCUPATION. 



Gen. Loinaz del Castillo, a leader in the 

 last revolution, visited Gov. Magoon, June 

 27, to discuss Secretary Taft's reported pre- 

 diction that the American occupation of 

 Cuba would continue for eighteen months. 



Del Castillo was dissatisfied with the re- 

 sult of his conference. He said upon leav- 

 ing the palace that he intended to cable to 

 Mr. Taft that his promises to' the revolu- 

 tionary committee would not be kept if the 

 occupation lasted that long. 



The Discussion, a Moderate organ, says^ it 

 will be much longer before the Americans 

 leave the island, and in effect declares that 

 the longer they stay here the better. — N. Y. 

 Sun. 



The liberals, partizans of Gen. Jose Mi- 

 guel Gomez and the liberals, adherents of 

 Alfredo Zayas, both retain their name and 

 neither cares to adopt another political 

 designation. 



^Meetings held between friends of the 

 rival candidates of the liberal party have 

 met with no success, for neither will retire 

 from the field, and, consequently, both Gen. 

 Jose Miguel Gomez and Sefior Alfredo 

 Zayas remain as presidential candidates. 

 Gen. Pino Guerra's efforts to bring about 

 an understanding between them were in 

 vain. 



HAVANA QUARANTINE STATION IN OPERATION. 



Triscornia, the quarantine station for out- 

 going non-immunes, was opened June 2 

 for passengers to quarantined ports in the 

 States. These include Tampa, Miami, Key 

 West, Mobile and New Orleans — all the 

 ports south of Maryland except Galveston. 

 No passengers will be taken at Triscornia 

 for New York, that State and Texas being 

 quarantined under state laws while the 

 United States Government is responsible 

 for the other quarantines. 



$13,000,000 IN PUBLIC WORKS. 



The public works to be built in accord- 

 ance to the last edict of Governor Magoon 

 who thus approves of the plan submitted 

 by the Supervisor, will cost about thirteen 

 million dollars. A network of cart roads 

 and many main roads will be laid, probably 

 requiring three years for completion. Many 

 of these roads were contemplated by the 

 Cuban Congress and appropriations were 

 voted for that purpose during the past year. 

 •In October, 1906, there was orily 600 kilo- 

 meters of macadamized roads in Cuba. It 

 is purposed to build 809 kilometers of road 

 during the three years, which will facili- 

 tate transportation and increase trade. 



TO DREDGE HAVANA HARBOR. 



The acting secretary of public works has 

 approved the draft of conditions for pubhc 

 bidding to supply the materials needful for 

 this important work. 



MANAGUA BATABANO ROAD. 



The provisional governor has decreed a 

 credit of $84,000 for the completion of the 

 cart road from Managua to Batabano. 



A stretch of 12 kilometers, from Bata- 

 bano to Duran, is already buik. 



POST OFFICE AT GUANTANAMO. 



The post office at the naval station at 

 Guantanamo has been officially named Bag- 

 ley, after Ensign Bagley, who was killed in 

 the Spanish-American War. 



