REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF TREASURE.
The Montevideo Harbor Improvements Company have had a curious slice of luck. In the course of their operations in dredging the harbor of Montevideo they have raised two ingots which were at first believed to be of iron, but one of the sailors, in cleaning off the shells which covered them, discovered that they were two bars of silver, each of 701 b weight. On one of them inscriptions were found which were much effaced, but the marks of oc and yn, and the date 1772, were still legible. There is no doubt that. these ingots formed part of the treasure which the Spanish galleon Aurora took from Chili in 1772, and which, accord, ing to the historian Lozan, was last in this port opposite the powder-magazine during the fiightful storm of August 19, of that year. As it is probable that in this spot there would be other remains of these treasures which have been hidden during a century, the dredging company have arranged with divers who will make further researches under the superintendence of the Procurator Fiscal on the part of the Montevidean Government, who are entitled to half the proceeds. The spot where the discovery has been made is 300yds to the south-east of the rocks in the bay called Piedras de St. Pedros.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1108, 19 April 1880, Page 3
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221REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF TREASURE. Kumara Times, Issue 1108, 19 April 1880, Page 3
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