RAID ON AN OPIUM DEN.
PALMERSTON NORTH, July 26. A Chinese den was raided for opium by the police here last night. Trouble Avas experienced in effecting an entrance to the room in which the smoking was supposed to be taking' place, as several of the Chinese resisted the police with billets of wood. After a struggle two were arrested, and a number of pipes and other paraphernalia seized. A small box containing opium was also found on" one of those arrested. A number of others escaped through the windows while an entrance was being effected. Two of those arrested were charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning, and have been remanded till Monday next. . '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7240, 27 July 1907, Page 4
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