TREASURE ISLANDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

TREASURE ISLANDS.

There are quite a number of isiarnfscattered about the globe, whereon buried treasure exists. And people art; always trying to find it Quite a score of attempts have been made, for instance, to unearth thf? treasure alleged to be buried on Coco* Island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped no reward for their toil. Kullv £30,000 has ba?n wasted, again, in futile attempts to recover the "'pirates' hoard" repotred to be hidden near the lip of the crater of an active —very active —volcano on Pagan Island, in the Ladrone Group. Still, as a set-off against many failures, there have been some few successes. There is no doubt, for instance, that a Liverpool sailor named John Adams unearthed treasure to the value ot between £loo,ooo and £200,000 on Auckland Fland some years back; no» that William Watson, a shepherd, recovered in 1868 nearly a ton of gold that had been hidden on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Likewise, two runaway seamen, named Handley and Cross, successfully located and dug up a valuable hoard on Oak Island, off the const of No :x Scotia, and this after many others ha I failed.