OPIUM SMUGGLING.
A WIDESPREAD SYSTEM. : A "PLANT" IN PORT ADELAIDE. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. .(ltec. Fob. 25, 11.40 p.m.) , Adelaide, February 25. A man named Ellison, a shopkeeper at Port 'Adelaide, was suspected of opiumsmuggling, and tlio police searched his shop and private residence. Their search .being fruitless, they .wero. about to leavo his residence, when they /observed some disturbed earth in tho garden. Investigation revealed a "plant" of opium. ' ■' ; Ellison..'has now confessed that ho was tho Adelaido and Broken Hill agent of a gigantic opium-smuggling company/ Which: had establishments at Port Darwin, Sydney', Brisbane, Melbourno, and 'in otlior parts of Australia! .The opium unearthed came from Sydney.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 7
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107OPIUM SMUGGLING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 7
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