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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 8

-About, one - o'clook this - morning the fiio brigade received a :call to Newtown!' a -fire having broken out in the': workshop of Mr. E.' Collie,' cabinetmaker." The brigade was tuickly on ' the ;^sceiie t -;.. and':, the outbreak was extinguished before serious damage : had Wen -dnise;'Many and- varied are the tricks'of the opium-, smugglor/ aM'i curious and ingenious: !are. the subterfuges' resorted to with a view of eluding the vigilance of -the "Customs officials. 'In the '-Central-. Criminal 'Court ,in Sydney-last week a Chinese witness told a*story ofascheme that was intended/'to/completely ' baffle the authori-ties.:-A'launch, he alleged; 'was to" be built and taken outside the Heads, ostensibly for the purpose'of fishing, brit reallv to meet a steamer on;-".,its -way-.'do<ni; the. coast. ; Accomplices -on board .were to throw overboard the'-'/opium .-' ThiSjWOuld-.be secured' by the.party ; in ./the launch,, and later, on-brought up-the harbour. If:.'suspicions were aroused they, would - take' half. •of < itto : the ■ authorities, - aid, '.telling', a plausible tale, claiin: ! the -reward. If - they landed the opium .safely,' the whole profit would M; divided.: '.'/' - - /.": - The.'Londohi correspondent'; of ' the ■ '-'Manchester.: Dispatch". Wrote''-'a few weeks ago':— "When -talking torday with Mr.: Wray Palliser, thb'.newly|app6inted-. Secretary, of the New' Zealand -Hign , Commissioner's Department, in succession to: Sir - Waltor -' Kennaway; he told jnMhat the seven years' lease of the ofEces-in Victoria Sitrcet. expires in twelve or fifteen months' time./. I; gather that Mr. Hall-Jones :is ;not. likely-to :ask for its renewal. ' The New Zealand offico has been in its present habitation. some-.50 years. -At, least, it/had been there already several.' years - when - Mr... WrayPalliser; joined its staff in 1870. In Nevr Zealand -the feeling is 'pretty strong and general 1 that tbo Higli Commissioner's office -is buried avrhy in' Westminster,V'.whilq :it..is.also: held that if itJ.were'transferred: to, the city" proper it.would .be equally lost sight'of.'. Consequently. Sir Joseph Ward and Mr. - Hall-Jones . have , been-discussing, the difficult question-of wlire' the High Commissioner's Department may be most' hiffldsomely and prominently ,' housed, I and I understand that a site ;in ' the' Strand ot'.its vicinity: is.most in favour.".. ;-,'' :. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, : i Woods' Great Peppermint Core,' It, Ed., 2a. ■ Sd.