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Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 62

The Rev. J. W. Webster, a Chinese missionary who is lecturing in the North Island, referring 1 to the opium traffic, said that the province of Chwan liad formerly produced one-third of the opium in China. Four yeara after the issue of the edict forbidding tho growth of poppies for the manufacture of opium net a poppy was to be found in Chwan. Recently an agreement had been arrived at whereby no opium waa to be imported from other province*) so tihet Chwan waa now practically a free province. At the Veterans" Home, Auckland, last Sunday there died Isaac Gleed, lata of the >7th Regiment, who had attained the age of 80 years, having served with the 57th Regiment from 1851 to 1863. He saw ser▼ioe during the Crimean war, and was awarded the Turkish medal, also the SebaaI _1 ~— ~ .-;»U U t T_l T>-1-clava, and Sebustopol. For servioe in Taranaki he also received the Maori war medal.