The only coal supplies now coming here are from Japan and Australia; and since the outbreak of the war, the receipt for the first forty-five days at Manila alone was about 120,000 tons. The normal consumption of the entire Philippines Islands ix about, 400,000 tons per annum. The price has advanced from about ome to twa pesos per ton, being shout eleven pesos per ton at prevnt. This makes it about seven Pros per ton at the Japanese mine:
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