CHINESE STOWAWAYS.
The Custom-house officials in Sydney when searching the China Navigation Company's steamer Changsha, immediately on her arrival from China, found seven Chinamen stowaways concealed in the vessel. Two were found down the forepeak, another in the stokoholo, and another was concealed beneath a lot of refuse in the butcher's shop, crouched in so small a space that it would be almost impossible to breathe. This seizure has more significance than at first strikes the reader, for they would cost the company £600 per head should tliey get ashore, i.e., £500 fine and £100 poll tax. They are locked up on board and a strict watch is kept over them. The same officials who succeeded in securing the stowaways wero successful in obtaining, after a dili gent search on the s.s. Mcnmuir the day before, some 5000 or 6000 cigars. No one claimed ownership, and tho cigars were confiscated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8299, 4 July 1890, Page 5
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