OPIUM PLANT DISCOVERED.
GIGANTIC SMUGGLING COMPANY UNEARTHED. Received 25th, 11.40 p.m. Adelaide. February 2.7. -V man named Ellison, a shopkcpier nv Port Adelaide. being suspected of opium smuggling, the police searched his shop and private residence fruitlessly. While about to leave the residence they observed some disturbed e.irtli in the eßjdoil. An investigation revealed a plant of opium.
Ellison lias now "confessed that he was the Adelaide and Broken Hill agent °t a gigantic opium-smuggling company winch had its establishments at Port JJanvin, Sidney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and other parts of Australia, lite opium uneavtliod came from Svrf110V.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 57, 26 February 1908, Page 2
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97OPIUM PLANT DISCOVERED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 57, 26 February 1908, Page 2
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