IMPROVEMENT IN CUBA.
Tlie London Times publishes a most interesting account of the situation in Cuba. Economically, the island is beginning to prosper again. There is plenty of work for the people, now numbering 1,572,000; the sugar plantations hare revived, and will in 1902 produce 9C0,0G0 tons; (>7,000,000 lbs of tobacco were grown this year, and the little farmers are growing fruit, for wdiich the demand in the Union h unlimited. Socially the great grievance is the badness of ihe police, which does not prevent brigandage in the country districts, though the towns are orderly, and of the courts, which are described as utterly corrupt. Politically, the people assent to the protectorate of the United States, and parties aie solidifying into two —the Independent- - , wdio wish Cuba to be as Chili, and the Annexationists, who would rather the island merged itself in the Union.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 October 1901, Page 4
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144IMPROVEMENT IN CUBA. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 October 1901, Page 4
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