THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16564, 30 May 1914, Page 12

THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

RAID IN THE CITY. A CHINAMAsHaRRESTED Yesterday Detectives Ward and Gibson made a raid on a Chinaman's house in Madras Street, between Tuam Street and St Asaph Street, where, ..it was reported, opium was smoked. There were several Chinamen inside, and a search in the house discovered two tins of opium and an opium pipe, lamp and stales. One of the tins contained pure opium, ready to be used. The other tin contained smoked opium, known as "second," being that portion of the drug which had beon scraped off the pipe after use, and was intended to bo used again. The scales were in a neat wooden case. The occupier of the house, Ah Mow, alias Jo Mow, was arrested by the detectives, and will be brought before the Magistrate's Court to-day on n charge of having opium illegally in his possession.