REAL TREASURE ISLAND.
HUNTS FOR BUR TED GOLD. There are a number of islands scattered about Iho world whereon buried treasure exists. And people are always Iryin*? In find it. Quite a score of attempts have been made, for inslanee. to unearth the treasure alleged to he huriod on Coe os Tslnd. Yet so far rlie adventurers have reaped no reward for (heir (oil. Fully £50,000 has been wasted again, in fnlile attempts to reeover the “pirates hoard” reported to he hidden near the lip of the era for of an native —very active —volcano on Pafran Island in (he T.ndrone Group. Still, as a set-off against many failures, there have been a few successes. There is no doubt for inslanee. that a Liverpool sailor named John Adams unearthed treasure t>> the value of between £150,000 and £200,000 on Auckland Island some years back: while 'William Watson, a shepherd, recovered in 1.808 nearly a ton of trold that had been hidden on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Likewise, two runnwav seamen, named Handley and Cross, sueee-s----fnlly located and dug up a valuable hoard on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2706, 11 March 1924, Page 1
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200REAL TREASURE ISLAND. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2706, 11 March 1924, Page 1
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