Famine in Spain.
Auokland, June 19. News by Frisco mail states that the southern provinces of Spain are represented to be in amo3t deplorable condition, owing to the failure of the crops from the prolonged drought, and despite the distress the collectors persist in their efforts to gather the last farthing from the starving people in taxes, which since the outbreak of the Cuban revolt have been intolerable in amount, with the result that the agricultural laborers have been driven to something very like rebellion. Bands of desperate men are scouring the country-side committing all kinds of excess. The Octrio buildings (where the taxes are collected upon produce coming into the town) have been sicked, farms pillaged and burned, and shops looted, and yet the Government cannot spare soldiers to suppress this brigandage or money to succour the starving people. Hundreds of infants have died of actual starvation, yet the authorities appear to see no cause for shame.
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Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 291, 22 June 1897, Page 2
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