SMUGGLED ANTIQUES.
Signor Prisco, an Italian Deputy, some time ago discovered a splendid Roman villa underneath his property at Pompeii. Though the law prohibits the exportation of antiques, the deputy smuggled abroad forty-eight frescoes and other works of art, estimated to be worth about £ m <VW. Two were recently sold in Paris for £4000 There is a, general -outcrjr against ti» Gov,
vernmenfc for its laxity in enforcing the prohibitory law.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7800, 3 September 1903, Page 3
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