A MYSTERIOUS HAND.
+ OPIUM SMUGGLING. BY CABIE—PRESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 6, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 6. Opium has been seized in the past two days valued at £480. Yesterday officers watching a Malay loitering on the wharf saw a hand containing a tin of opium thrust through opening planks. An officer took the tin, and the mysterious hand kept appearing till forty-two tins had been handed up. The man under the wharf became suspicious, and jumped into the- harbor and escaped.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 5
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81A MYSTERIOUS HAND. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 5
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