THE GENERAL GRANT'S TREASURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2820, 11 July 1916, Page 6

THE GENERAL GRANT'S TREASURE

• ♦ CAPTAIN CATLING'S THEORY, By Telegraph—Press .Association: Dunedin, July 16. Captain Catling, who left Dunedin on February 9 ia the cutter Enterprise to endeavour to secure, the gold from the General Grant, returned, on Sunday night. Captain Catling is perfectly satisfied. that- ho located the soene .of the wreck in a large oavern. but after repeatedly diving for two days they could only discover two-, pieces" of timberjammed beneath some large boulders. The rest of the wreck had entirely - disappeared.; He had no doubt whatever that the seas -which ,'oome in with the northwest gales would smash any ship to fragments in a short time. They closely examined the' bottom of the cavern searching for crevices between the boulders for any sign of gold. Captain Catling says tbat if the General Grant's gold was in bars he is satisfied it must 6till have been-there, that is, if it had not been removed. He was also satisfied that the cavern which he-searched was the scene of the WTeck. There was ao Bign' of .'safid or - silt on the bottom, and even one gold ooin could easily be seen. He concludes that the gold had been secured by the Daphne in 1869, and that the boat in which the ; crew rowed oil with it was''swamped and lost,