SMUGGLED OPIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 7

SMUGGLED OPIUM.

CHINAMAN FINED.

(S_T TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. Last week a ; seaman named Hemus •was erasw-isted on. ; & .charge of smuggling opium, and to-day a Chinaman named Joe Lain was convicted on a charge -oi having two tins of -opium in his possession. The.police stated that the opium was part ©f what Hemus smuggled from the CJEmaroa, The accused was fined £40 and costs, and was also fined £10 and costs for being. In possession of a firearm, namely, a setrolver, which the police found fully loadftt on a table py his bed.