AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1741, 16 January 1888, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND

I Tho' local correspondent of the "Lyttelhu, Tita. 6 " toada tbe following to that journal : — About a week ago Mrs Potter, of Wairoato, raiseed a very valuable a*pphira tir:g. As it had not been worn for fully a month before, the time of its disappearance was a matter of mystery. Every poeßibl* place *hero it might have been put wss diligently searohed, but witboot avail. Abuut tho time the search was at its height Mr J R, Clement, solicitor, while hoeing In his garden, turned up something bright and sparklivg, which, on examination, proved to be a riiig enclosed In what was evidently the orost of a pie. While telling Mr J. B. Taylor of bis find, acd describing the rinj?, he was told that It was Mrs Potter's The question of doubt then arose, and the impossibility of Us being the lost ring was freely hinted. Upon being submitted to examination by Mr Nells on, watohmaker, the identity of the ring was proved, and now the question arises— How came the ring m Mr Clement's garden, where Mrs Potter never wan, and how came it to be enclosed m a piece of pie crust t It ia probable that tbe solution of the mystery will never be arrived at.