OPIUM SMUGGLING.
'■!"■ ■ »w<i» »■» .■■' ''-""; DISCOVERY IN ADELAIDE. By 'Iclegtopli.—Preis Aiwoclßtlon.-rCopyrigJit '';':■ (licceivcd February 26, 12.48 a.m.. < Adkiiai.dk, February 25. A man* mated Ellison, ft .' Port Adelaide, has been suspected of opium smuggling, and the police to-day searched , ; his hop and private residence fruitlesslj'. While they were about to leave the resi- - dence, they observed disturbed earth in th* garden, and ati investigation revealed a. plant of opium. Ellison bus now confessed that he was the Adelaide and Broken Hil'. agent of a gigantic" opium smuggling com-: • pany, which had establishment* in Port Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, find other parts of Australia. The opium unearthed came from Sydney, '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13683, 26 February 1908, Page 7
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OPIUM SMUGGLING.
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13683, 26 February 1908, Page 7
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