SMUGGLING OPIUM.
AN CNLOOKED-FOR HAUL. By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Sydney, May «. Opium has been seized during the past two days valued at £4BO. Yesterday officers watching a Malay loitering on the wharf saw a hand containing a tin of opium thrust through an opening in the planks. An officer took the tin and the mysterious hand kept appearing till forty-two tins were handed up. The man under the wharf then became suspicious, jumped into the harbor and escaped.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 8 May 1911, Page 5
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77SMUGGLING OPIUM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 295, 8 May 1911, Page 5
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