Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-23

sci will depart with number of cab
in and deck passengers.
- q.
Alice Cooke Is On the Way.
with u fun shipment Of lumber, the
American schooner Alice Cooke is re-
ported to have cleared Tacoma on last
Tuesday with destination as Homo
lulu This vessel is bringing lum-
Ter consigned to the agency of Lew
crs and Cooke.
Ciaudine for Hawaii and Maui.
The Inter-Island steamer Claudine
To sail tomorrow evening for Maui and
Hawaii ports will take shipments of
fertilizer and lumber besides several
head stock on deck. The Claudine has
a fair list of passengers booked for
the Big Island
Australian customs officials have
been combating with the determined
efforts of Orientals In their endeaovor
TO smuggle quantities of opium into
the Commonwealth and the expert
enccs met with by the inspectors are
entertainly related in the Sydney
Morning Telegraph, which says
A glance at the convictions secur-
ed against opium smugglers In sgd
/ ey recalls the ingenious methods they
have at various times resorted to
There was an old launch which was
at regular intervals - synchronising
wonderfully with the arrival of steam
ers from China-chartered for fishing
excursions to the sydney Heads. That
fishing party never supplied the press
with statement of their catch for
| the announcement of other followers
of l2aak Walton. Doubtless. however,
they found their fishing grounds emf
rently satisfactory, as they returned
there again and again. But from in
formation received" the authorities
made the old steam launch the Gym
osure of many eyes peering through
telescopes. Then there was rush 10
capture that launch, and, despite an
attempt to scurry away, she was
caught. The story was simple. The
opium was thrown overheard from the
incoming steamer, and the launch had
merely to pick up the float which was
| attached to 1t and then steam bacl;
into the harbor with the hundreds OF
| rounds worth of drug none the worse
for its consignment to the waters
Casting bread upon the waters was
never as profitable as this game.
On some occasions opium has beer
introduced into sydney in the middle
of bag of rice. As the bags run A.
to the ton OF rice. II was considered 9
good sporting risk to send few tins
OF opium In a single bag. II the opium
was undetected, the profit paid fol
the cost of several tons of rice. And
to give John Chinaman his due-he Il
a good sport. But nowadays the Gus
toms officials have black marks reg
istered against the names OF the firms
that have had the misfortune" II
have introduced rice into the State in
10 which someone In China had care
lessly-but of course Inadvertently
dropped few tins of opium. The
misfortune" refers to discovery b,
the lynx-eyed Customs men-not I,
the inadvertence. Accordingly som,
consignments of rice are "skewered
with great care, while In the case o
others the sharp steel rod is intro
duced into only one or two OF tn,
bags. After u time, the Customs Off
cials become experts in Chinese good
particularly medicines. for whicl
the name legion should he ear-marli
, ed. Pills for truly startling purpose
are largely imported, and but for tn,
eternal vigilance Of the Customs Off
GERS, opium would find an easy en-
trance by this channel. The hollow
bamboo In the many articles of ham
boo furniture imported from Chin
} has ceased to he a popular vehicle
for opium smuggling, as this dodg
: was overdone.