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Hongkong, Apr. 2. What is considered to have been an attempt on the pant of powerful smuggling interests to bribe the entire native star of the revenue department in order to evade the Colony's opium laws, was revealed here to-day.
The disclosure was made in the Police Court by Mr. Tim Murphy, Assistant Director of Criminal Intelitigence, when eight men, a foreigner and seven Chinese, were charged with evading the opium laws.
The case was remanded until Saturday pending further police investigations.
The foreigner involved gave his name as Albert-Randall. "His nationality is unknown—Reuter. person or employ proxies at 30 cents per day, The merchants In the pao of the efty have farmed out their portions, rather than send their chop-boys todo the hoeing and carrying.
Tu addition to the building of these /trunie roads all the lesser roads in the And so the work goes on. In almost 40 years of life in China, your correspondent has never seen such cooperation, such movement all along the line,
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