SMUGGLING DODGES.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 17, 3 May 1895, Page 7

SMUGGLING DODGES.

, «- — ' From time to time a method sfcartlingly up-to-date is brought to light at the Custom House. Such was that of the lady of striking appearanoa wbo made periodical visita to New York accompanied by a Mongolian servant in charge of a grey pelioan, which he ltd with a gold chain. The pelican was an improvement on the goose that laid the golden eggs. It smuggled diamonds iv its enormous bill. Up-to-date also wbb the plan of the Spaniard who frequently crossed tha Pyrennean frontier on a bicycle with the very latent thing iv pneumatic tyres. One day * dog got in the way, and the bicyclist and his machine came to grief ucder the eyes of a Custom House officer. Then it was discovered that the ( safety ' had been specially constructed —tyre?, backbone, and saddle—for smuggling raw alcohol. A similar accident led to the discovery of a method equally original. A resplendent carriage, with powdered coachman and footman complete, for months passed daily through a Paris gate. It wae overset in a colliaon. The coachman picked himself up^ but the gorgeous footman lay unconßcious. A spectator ran to the poor fellow's aid. Ordinary means having failed to bring him round, a donanier cut him open, and drew from him many gallons of cognac. Ho was a lay figure.