OPIUM SMUGGLING
..... -ADELAIDE, February 25. A "man named Ellison, a' shopkeeper at Port. Adelaide, being suspected of opium smuggling, -the police searched his shop tact private tfesidfence, but fruitlessly. iWhen . about to leave the residence the police observed some disturbed earth in £he garden, and investigation revealed a plant of opium. Ellison has now confessed that he was tne Adelaide and Broken Hill agent of a gigantic opium smuggling company, "i«rhich had an establishment at, Port Dar.win, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and ' other parts of Australia. The opium tmeaTthed came from Sydney. February 28. The Commissioner of Police complains of tjhe inactivity of the" Customs authorities. He says that they had let slip the 'opportunity- of unearthing the biggest importations of opium for many years. MELBOURNE, February 27. i Some of the Customs officials are noti surprised over" the Adelaide opium frauds. One official estimated that the Customs losses in the various States totalled £100,000 per annum.*
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 27
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156OPIUM SMUGGLING Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 27
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