RAND DIAMOND STORY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10616, 15 June 1920, Page 6

RAND DIAMOND STORY

.SEARCH FOR LOST MINE. According to the "Rand Daily Mail," a private syndioate, formed for the purpose of locating a lost diamond mine, lias begun operations. The story goes back three years, when an old prospector, said to bo an Englishman, after nine years' absence, turned up on the Rand. He had with him 187 carats of diamonds, which he brought to test the market. The result was satisfactory, and later ho returned with 600 carats of picked stones.

The Englishman, being in tho employ of a German company, felt certain of his inability to get a title, and so preferred to get the diamonds in his own way. Subsequently the war broke out, and when the Germans vere conquered bo formed a Syndicate to work not only the German niinet, but also tho mine he himself had found, but discovered that he could not get «. license until peace was declared.

He died within a year. His papers have been carefully oxamined, but they contained no referenco to tho whereabouts of the_ mine. The only availablo information seems to be the following:—(1) Diamonds will bo found in a. largo and narrow rocky crevice, which is being continually covered or filled in by moving sand; (2) tho discoverer only went there occasionally, and always alone; (3) the only tools he took with him consisted of a small sieve, a small spade, aria gardener's trowel, which he carried in large pockets in his long linen coat; (4) the diamonds, which dtp said to be worth millions, are in th's long crevice buried in tho sand.