CUBA.
An incendiary proclamation has been circulated extensively throughout the city. General Cespedes issued a proclamation, in which he invokes! all trite Cubans; to; destroy.!.*^ ! tobacco arid; sugar! crops iri ; ; jprdeir [to deprive the Spaniards of these means iof Bupport. Several! thousands of (Spanish troops have arrived from i Cadiz. ..-Y.r!i j A Haytian steamer, .seized on j the i coast, was taken ! to Santiago, under ; suspicion of having ; landed arms for the Cubans. Seven hundred of Valmazeda's battalion have arrived. Fighting at Moyate still continues. Cholera is decreasing at Hayti. Late intelligence received from the Eastern department gives accounts of several skirmishes between the Government troops and insurgents near Santiago. The Spanish man-of-war Isabella sails
for New York, taking crews for twelve Spanish gunboats. San Fsancisco, Dec. 25. A New York " special" says that a conspiracy to kindle several fires simultaneously in Chicago has been discovered, through the confession of a drunken man. Flour is in improved demand for export at sdol. 25c. to 50c. ; extra quality superfine, 4dol. to Idol. 37£ c .; oats, Idol. 25c. to Idol. 37£e.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 547, 19 February 1870, Page 3
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180CUBA. Star (Christchurch), Issue 547, 19 February 1870, Page 3
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