Sketcher.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 413, 14 April 1904, Page 3

Sketcher.

J 1 4501 LSB3KYZEE©3?Liff.CI!'R SPfaWßea maaaehoseari resisb-the tascife^ fm J ~°? his, pwni w long ar man is merefif n ™a , Jor *° BJHnte^nnJtQah'just whea'* Ire Msf made «6^fl6K. i * f A«IMW-p«n*fc the?re¥oida i°J^coverer t treasures speedily t , provesj sanguine or clever of after alirha 0 the favored one. Tffjke for'gage®?thaiioinaniic uain the bed of tne KiverDovfr, in Staffordshire, seventy-. |?fj Tears ago. Some workmen'"were engaged in removing a mu&fenkrWhicfi* had fformei-in-the-oeatre-of-the-Tiverr w ™f SS?f fe*mm amatad to ; fitfd Con jawing Eb spade that with fiErefc coins. The, next time the spade was ra|se|dit brMpt'theifi u^byfiMredsi-s- ---~* TIS" s !!* b li# ie /i , l i *^ OT l B H exclamationfii. 1 £ ajromshment asS deUght,".his feUow-. 1 hurriea a%ibnieM' r iM™"?*^ 600^6 * J were-."' scraMblfeg- '&&&> feveris,hly)Slingi pockets, their hats,, and %ithißilver.coins, whion wortOheir weight in gpldrfcr they'were of of th£ first iwo^BdWards 1 and-had J lain- ih ; the jefejsft*£fiQftyears.chThatith® bulkiofe pitimately, Qlaimeft* 48 a Llwcaste^matteißvUttlej: tor I naderß l 'had already appropriated' the preei6us s dacs. e r J3^fl^d^ar#lat6ra^w l^a I gy |joy2< rfi^ 6 ! Ikying a t J Sft»rnoon nSaKiaaworth, in ?*? ,^fSS»Ow^fS!"^!e sP f them caught cartrut in a rough road that pasture. Tugging at the itrlp Of-metaT a hole, and through the exhis pockets and those of his playm*tsMtf. •88. TSMv WlQiJßgsfeß appreciate the „W&& Sm^tM^d^jim on: s theFr way home; b^ J flinging Mtt, coins at passing birds «1 into Jfcho " vina ? e PO|^M: f SZ e&Uif Ultimately n.aarjya 7,000 coins wore recovered from this buried treasure-chest, ; and they proved to be of tthe.-reigia of Willmm I, and 11, and iff^wdnairful' ataterof presarvatton,=ii jsimilar discovery j was jmade near Wetnerby, in Torkshire L _when a heavy : cart passing over a, country' road stuck last 5 closed a number of silver had escaped lirom the burst lid of 3 a chest hidden under . the roadway. It wat ,'WBum«td that the chest of coins had been 'buried tJ in ; the' peiiloua days of the Cyril! War, and that the gradual sinking of the road aad the 1 weight of the passing cart had at last brought it again to the light of day. Li ,,, ; ._■„, >'- ! Ia the year 1846 a most valuable deposit of treasure was revealed in the strangest Cjuerdale, near in Lancashire. ' Some labourers were digging aeaT the banks of the River Bihble fwhen the ?J 6f one of them struck Bomethiag harder 'than- earth and more Oh removing his pick he found transfixed at the end of it a large ingot of silver. Plying his tool 'with renewed vigour he soon, disclosed a perfect mine of wealth, consisting of !Bcorep» of silver ißgots. weighihg ia all :Over 1,000 m., an" almost priceless collection of 7,000 coins of different periodß and cduntries,* mahylof/ them dating from Saxon times a thousand and more years ago. //Similar fcrtune befell ,a; couple of labourers who were digging in a ditch near in Somersetshire, when ; they cheft "fulT hi coins of t&&r:day& of the Stuarts. -Theytook samples of the, coins to a. neighbouring antiquary of wealth; who not only paid the men a large sum for their treasure, but purchased a score or more acres of land adjacent to the lucky ditch. And here the irony of fortune 1b" well" illustrated; for; although; the antiquary; speat thousands of pounds in buying and excavating his land, not a single coin was discovered beyond those" which a 'stroke of the spade had revealed. This is the kind of trick Fortune loves to play on designing man. .Not very many years ago, when the thatched roof of an ancient cottage near Bipoa was removed a; rich, nest 'of five-guinea gold • pieces was discovered hidden aw*y : under it. When the news of this treasure-trove, came to the ears of a neighbouring' landowner he was so fired by the lnbt of gold that he forthwith purchased a dozen f[™^ r cottages in the : districtr.aad:had: them all pulled down j * but again not a solitary coin was found in exohange for the the experiment cost him.