EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6503, 30 December 1881, Page 6

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.

U U to be hoped (W# Die AeedoA 2*.^ i±lKfflfe2S^SV2 Itlle, title, mi psnooat of the Ulus* *rio«» potentate who##> mortal matins bite weehtW beendiwowwA *b Fomcatere, one 3 th'<s Stleerie Wte, in ft •«blw»ni»« chamber. A party of sportsmen, while Imtinf tome thick low cow, U Mti the entrance to Ibis tomb, all hut totally Esl, b, **t£JS*Sj£ Win. Stimulated by euriority they clear«l awaytiitssotetofllra, crop} tion# a nm» pa»s«ph«wn through (he Mild rock, end picanw f«»»4 thmralves in & small domed nmutolenta, roatelaing two and silver nmaeafe Both ooretod with racial colin-lld*, exquisitely wrought And embossed. Upon raisins these, one of the coffin* »« >»"»« nenUto the embalms* mrf» of an eldsriy man, roloraal in statute, crowned wRh an imswml disdero, nod (ETMpiatfAtwplwia itasbrlvnUsd tight hand* Th« Inmate of the other e«®n proved to be the body. ti» embalmed, of tl°T* maram comic-craWy over oft in Icesth, be* decked with j*wU of extraordinwy size fttsd # pleadour among others, A triple collar of emraww Oriental pearly two huge ruby ear* drops, several diamond nop, nod « msstlv® •olden crown, thickly enenwied with preeroa* of inestimable value. The fortunate findera of this twmure hate «l a mteh upon the entrance to the tomb, which wttl be guarded by day end night until toe Royal aulhmtira in Madrid-to whom a detailed report of the discovery hot beta addm#ed«— riitil Imtae their erdm with- respect to it* ultimate dispmL It epptof toajh# sxirt•nee of a «nvn in toe interior of the Wood had long been known to the inhabitant# of Fermenters. As, however. It hod borne »o txi\ reputation—that of heiog infested by unknown cumber* of venomous snake#—no one had hcrelofaro dared to explore it