SUNKEN GOLD HOARD.
CONAN DOYLE’S HOPES.
Dubloons, pieces of eight, rubies, diamonds, and pearls worth a million, lie in the rotting planks of the ship Grosvenor, lost in 1782, off Port St. John, on the Kaffir coast. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is interesting himself in the scheme of a Joliannesberg syndicate for salving the treasure.
“I have written to the syndicate, asking certain questions with regard to the method by which they hope to salve the treasure,” said Sir Arthur. “If the answers are satisfactory —and I am an old seagoing man myself, having been a ship’s surgeon with knowledge of such matters —I may take up one thousand shares. I certainly believe the treasure is worth a million.”
Whether treasure so long lost is recoverable is doubted by salvage experts.’ All search for sunken cargo is speculative, and all questing for sunken treasure a dream,” said an authority.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 1
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149SUNKEN GOLD HOARD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 1
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