OPIUM OASES
■ j (Per Fresu Association.) I Nelson, last night. I At the Court to day Kong Cheng, one of I the well-known local Chinese firm of Sing I Lee Chong, and Tang Chow, Chinamen, I was charged on the information of the I Collector of Customs with having in his I possession opium suitable for smoking, I The police and Collector raided tho premises in Trafalgar streot, and found in a j safe a jar containing extract of opium. Acousea, Kong Cheng, when the raiders entered, uttered a. cry. In an upstairs I room all the appliances for opium I smoking were found. The defence was that the opium was the re- I mains of some ordered by a doctor. Kong I Cheng was fined £25 and costs, £4 11s, I The case against Tung Chow was then I proceeded with. I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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143OPIUM OASES Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 3
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