CUSTOMS, At the instance of the Imperial Maritime Customs an interesting case was brought before the Court, the circumstances in which tended to show method of swindling the service by substituting parcels when brought for examination, The case was one in which coolie named Yang Ab-loh was charged with being concerned with one not in custody in defrauding the Castoms of the daty on certain goods. Mr. R.H.R. Wade, Deputy Commissioner, appeared for the Customs, and the Police were represented by Det.- Sgt. Prosser.
Mr. Wade explained that the case before the Court arose arose out of parcel which was brought to be examined by the Customs shroff of Messrs. Gar-rels, Borner & Ca, This shroff had brought a parcel to the Post Office to be examined, bat on reaching there had substituted for it another parcel, This false parcel wat examined and given to the accused to seal and stamp, The false parcel was of much smaller sions than the original parcel, and Id have been marked "daty free." However, the parcel that was posted at the German Post Office was 'a much larger parcel than that by the Customs, and it bad the seal and stamp of the Customs upon it, showing that the coolie must have sossled the larger parcel, and not the one which bad been examined. This was marked "duty payable," and
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