RAID FOR OPIUM.
CHTNAMEN SHOW FIGHT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMERSTON NORTH, this day.
A Chinese den was raided for opium by the police here last night. Trouble was experienced in effecting an entrance to the room in which smoking was suuposed 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 appurtenances 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 the arrested men were charged at the Court House this morning, and. ha«i beej__rjtmandei jtill j_jtm(tai_«_(S.' ,"
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 4
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117RAID FOR OPIUM. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 4
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