A Relic of the Bushranging j Days. i

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 8 January 1891, Page 3

A Relic of the Bushranging j Days. i

A strange discovery was made on j Tuesday, the 9th inst., at a romantic uook in the vicinity of the G ulburn Eiver. A farmer named Campbell who resides at Balrami has a hou ekeeeper aud her son, a boy of tender years, was attracted to a cave in the pursuit of hens' eggs. While j searching the retreat he found a ' large salad oil bottle, in which there j was a wooden plug. The bottle i appeared to be stuffed with so ore j material* au<*, upon the finder submitting it to the inspection of adults it was discovered that it contained a large number of bank notes, which had been pushed tightly into their receptacle and owing to damp, it is supposed, had with time been formed into a pulpy mass. The bottle and its contents were brought into Mus-* wellbrook and placed in the care of Mr 3 . W. Humphries, of Messrs M. Campbell & Co. That gentleman, by steaming the mass (the original portion was broken in two m transit) was enabled to separate seven halves of flve.pound Commercial Bank notes in a fairly good state of preservation, the printing and numbers being perfectly legible. The pulpy bundles contain probably 00 notes in all, but it is impossible at present to tell their value. The find ii supposed to have been a>( plant " of the notorious Thunderbolt, who was known to inhabit the cave where the money was found, a ha'f-caste woman who had lived with the outlaw having died in the cavern. The money must. have been lying in the care for upwards of a quarter of a century, and the matter is exciting considerable interest.