HUGE DIAMOND
THE LATEST FIND IN SOUTH AMERICA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9-30 a.m.) NEW YORK, -September 22. The “Tones” correspondent at Rio Ja-niero says a prospector in the upper waters of the Saobento river in the State of Minas Girae s to-day reported finding a diamond of 540 over vwo thousand carats, f valued at eight thousand d-ollars. It is believed t 0 be the second largest diamond recorded. iSix -other large stones, one of four hundred carats were also found, of a total value- of a million pounds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1933, Page 5
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95HUGE DIAMOND Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1933, Page 5
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