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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 134, 26 November 1875, Page 14

While tho Alfonsists arc laying siege to Sco de Urgel, tlie Carlists on their part keep Hernani closely invested, and should they succeed in taking it, the communication between the interior of Spam and the French i'rouuer on the B.dassoa will be effectually cut. Very little bloodshed has lately taken pi ice in this part oi the seat of war. and Don Carlos has had leisure to adopt v, rious measmes tor the better government of the region subject to his rule. In the first place, a mint has been erected at Ovate, in Biscay, where coins are to be struck to the effigy of King Charles VII. In this way, while the Alfomsts can never carry a single operation through, for want of financial resources, the Carlists arc literally coining money. Again, Basque has been restored to the three provinces of Biscay, l^uipuzcoa and Alava as tbeir official languai^e, to the exclusion of panish ; and this at the very moment when tho Alfonsists d clare that as soon as the war is over, they will take thefaeros or local privileges away from the Basque province.. No wonder that the Basques and Navarrese will go through fire for tharles Vll, the legitimate king of their own choice, and look upon their Alfonsist antagonists as the very embodiment of the arch-fiend.