The society for promoting German emigration in America has 490 lodges and about 30,000 active members.^ Violent storms, accompanied by heavy falls of snow, are reported from all parts of the United States. The Santa Clara Valley, in California, is flooded. The damage done in that district is estimated at 500,000d015. A snowslip has occurred at Alta, Utah, demolishing the works of the New Emma mine, and killing 12 persons, including two women. Unlike the Chinese, the Japanese never smoke opium. A dread of it prevails in Japan ever since the war between England and China, which arose about opium. If Chinamen are found smoking opium in the ports of Japan they are apprehended and punished. The Dutch were the first to introduce opium into Japan, but it is only used medicinally.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7246, 21 May 1884, Page 3
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