OPIUM SMUGGLER FINED
SHIP HELD UP AT FIJI. fly Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. . if Suva, July 10. . One of the crew of the Ville do Verdun, of the Messageries Maritimes , Line, . was fined £75 yesterday for smuggling 20 pounds of opium into Fiji. ~d The captain was going to sail with- ; out tho smuggler, but the crew struck, and tho ship was held up four hours. The agents guaranteed the money and *• the prisoner was released. The vessel departed for Noumea at » :■ i '- ' /|f tert 4 Hninß ! .,(-•• PS-J3 • ■' 't."'
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 15
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