BURIED SOVEREIGNS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5274, 14 May 1928, Page 3

BURIED SOVEREIGNS.

TEN 'THOUSAND OF THEM. ■AN INTERESTING STORY. SYDNEY, April 24. A hoard of gold hidden by his ujicle, after the financial crash of 1893, is rumoured to have been unearthed' on his farm, near Largs, West Maitland 1 , by Mr Jack Unieombe, Interviewed by the Daily Telegr*ph Pictorial, Mr Jock Unieombe denied that .he had the gold, but admitted he knew a lot about it. He says that the relatives, of the late Mr W. E. Gobly, his uncle, are pressing him to disclose what Mr Gobly tOjld him the night before lie died. Mr Unieombe states that he does not know the exact spot, but that if those who want the money offer a suitable reward they might get something. REFUSED OFFER. They had offered him 10 per cent., he said, but this he had refused. “In a month’s time you may have something to write about,” Mr Unieombe ■candidly admitted? He; did not know what right he would .have to money found on his farm. “ They have told .me it’s theirs,” he isaid, “ and that I would have to hand it to the Government.” HAD IT COUNTED. An interesting story is attached to the supposed hoard. During the bank crash of 1893, it is stated that Gobly withdrew from a bank about £lO.OOO in sovereigns. It is said he would not take weight, and insisted on the bank officials couniting the money. It took two days. He brought home two lots of sovereigns in t a sugar bag, on ■horseback.

Frier to his death, seven years ago, a robbery occurred. Gobly was very frightened, and Unieombe went to live with him. This was a year before he died.