AUSTRALIAN.
S Sydney, February 26. Torrential rain has fallen since ir this morning. Heavy ! iwers continue. The floods In northern rivers are receding. Parliament meets on March 10th jr a short session. The chief business is the Arbitration Bill. The Rev. Banks has been elected President of the Methodist Conference. > girl died at Kempsey , it is pected from plague. Tne annual report of the New South Wales Benevolent Society indicates a decrease in poverty. Adelaide, February 26. A man named Ellison, a shop--per at Port Adelaide, was suspected of opium smuggling. The oolice searched his shop and private residence but while about to leave the residence they observed disturbed earth in the garden. Investigations repealed a plant of opium. Ellison has now confessed that he was the Adelaide and Broken Hill agent of a gigantic opium smuggling com* I any, which had establishments in Po-: Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, Me bourne, and other | parts of Australia. The opium unearthed came from Sydney.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 29 February 1908, Page 3
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161AUSTRALIAN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 29 February 1908, Page 3
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