OPIUM BY POST.
CHINAMAN FINED £SO
[Press Association.]
INVERCARGILL, Dec. 21
About noon in Post Office Square to-day Lock Ping, proprietor of a Chinese cook shop in town, .wflfe arrested on a charge of having in his possession opium in a form suitable for smoking. It appears that the accused received through the post from Dunedin two quarter-pound fins of opium valued at £6 Gs. He was immediately taken before two justices and a fine of £SO was inflicted, in default six months’ imprisonment. It is understood that steps aro being taken by the countrymen of accused to have the fine paid.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2383, 26 December 1908, Page 5
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102OPIUM BY POST. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2383, 26 December 1908, Page 5
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