MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iUSTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. I IM G TKAKI'JGKKTI sextkxckd. I Received this da\ ai 0.15 a.m.l LONDON. December 10. Described liv comis:as the largest i rallickiM- in timers ever 1 .r<i t<> inflict' was Yasukichi .Nl iy agnwu, morvluuu. who was si.Mitciiced to three

■cais penal servitude at the Old .Bailey tat a charge <>!' procuring live hundred rounds morphine and hydro-ehloride, to lie sent to Japan ; also for possessing a quantity of the drug. The proseeul imi alleged l hat Miyn-

pnvn was on.piped in the smuggling of I. up:'- q nan titles of morphine into Japan and a ceasipnanni of morphine and hydio-ehloriilo had heeu seized by tlie police at Marseilles. This is valued si nine thousand sterling.

’I lie Home Office- knew that huge consignments of drugs had been smuggled into Japan in recent years. Some found its way to China. India and other parts of the world. jriyagama. trafficked enormously in drugs in Switzerland and Hamburg v.hence la* exporled CJi .*>llo v.oiih during the lasi week of October. He was baeked by powerful and wealthy organisations. Representations were made to Cevniany. and many arrests were made in Hamburg. TO PREPARE FOR AXOTHKR i:le( tiox. (Received this dav at 0.25 a.m.) FOX OCX. December 13. During the last few days the bahourito Executive passed a resolution, that view of the critical parliamentary poHticm and the possibility of another oarlv election, Mr Arthur Henderson, the headquarter's stuff and regional officers he requested to immediately prea.,re for rhe next contest which will Pt* tl’.e most momentous in the bistort of Labour.