| Show I ALm JStn RICO I I I Fod Ootbrk L A DeyEflort In ho sapplic I New York April 3 dVlees from Porto nice are mgrr hut nco aiarmhul Bland I Bl-and Indicate that a food ouTbriakmay rooo may be looked outmak for b any day sa > s the M Thoma correspondent of the World The lahorrr in I the Intettor have no 1 work and n andcalsoquently no noney to lay the hlah prices demanded for pro I I loD dmand I state Department Commissioner 1 117 im fiug Ipr e hnd has arrived on the steamer Iollahlo illtil r0chil Instructions to Potted 8 tn tell ptJal In theWot In Jnld I die 10 Iurha coal and to forward reportm pI the movements 01 the enemy ene-my Spaniards at Porto Rica arc making active efforts toh purchase the exle1fila coal supply on I the other Islands Sc V cral thousand Iou tire on the Was air coaelgnel to Bronted Moran ho have received different eables Irom the Porto Illcan agents of the Spanish government making efforts for the supplies Other local firms have received similar simi-lar messages The same request has hn made to mtchnt In the Win ward islands whoso supply is I Inade qul 10 Cover Contracts The team ship lines I have nlsa been offered high l prices They have replied that their terms will he cash nt Ih har and be Vt dmanod largef1gurelf on accoUnt of the strike 1 the enrdll mines and the high freights exacted by the English teamr salilch tire confident 01 a onopolr In came 01 war consul VarsBorn III I complying with his Instructions quUtly Land Is I securing first optcn en all obtainable < 03 |
