Rarely, if ever, has greater excitement been seen in the Gold Bar Exchange than was exhibited on March 3. Never before have such fluctuations taken place in one session and advancing after the opening to Tls. 515, the market closed at Tls. 490—a difference of Tls. 25.
Tt has been learned that the River Police received information that large consignment of opium wag coming down river and was in charg of a notorious character in Shanghai who had been concerned in simitax work before.
The River Police, however, were preceded by several officials of aq organization called the "Kiangstt Anti-Opium Bureau" who boarded the ship at Woosung and "searched" it for opium. 1
In the main they were unsuccess. fol and on the arrival of the ship og the Old Ningpo Wharf where tha River Police boarded her, the ante opium enthusiasts managed to find small quantity while the Police werd having little difficulty in Jocating the "several piculs."
Some time before the ship tied it was noticed that a large fleet of hhire cars had arrived at the wharf Dut once the determined searching, started they left as suddenly as they had arrived. It is believed that} they were to be used to take off tha opium in the ship.
There was no excitement in cons nection with the seizure and everyone aboard denied any knows Jedge of the opium no one was held.
Officers of the ship stated thad there was nothing unusual in the seizure save its large size, Thera is said always to be a' certain amount of the stuff brought down river by the crews in practically. every vessel that arrives here, but is one seized was remarkable for
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