REVISITING A WRECK.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1106, 31 October 1883, Page 2

REVISITING A WRECK.

Onr ( Egmont Courier ) reporter paid a visit to the wreck of the Lord Worsley last week, at low tide. Mr Gough was at his post as usual, working away by himself, and apparently as jolly as if he had half-a-dozen “ mates” around him. A lot of copper ore, 200 or 300 tons of iron, and brass castings, are strewn about in all directions. The only thing of any great size that now remains, after the last great dynamite explosion, is the boiler, which still appears in good condition, notwithstanding its having been confined in its watery bod for the last 20 years. Mr Gongh has now been at work for over two years—not 20 years, as stated a few months ago in some of the newspapers. He has not made a fortune, but he has with patient toil and energy made a living. If he can find a goo'.r market for the iron and copper, he may yet make a “ rise ” fas the diggers phrase it). The Lord Worsley was supposed to contain a lot of hidden treasure, in the shape of sovereigns which were placed on board to pay the Imperial troops stationed on this Coast twenty years ago; hut so far the energetic diver has not managed to secure the prize. Mr Gongh is, perhaps, the most experienced diver in New Zealand, and one of his sons is employed in a similar capacity by the New Plymouth Harbour Board. He was for many years in the employ of Mr Canard, of London, and worked for that enterprising contractor in Spain, Portugal, Holland, and other countries, eventually coming out to the city of Wellington to lay down the piles for the Queen’s Wharf. Like most men coming to a new country, Mr Gough’s life, since iio arrived in the Colony, has been a somewhat varied one;