TREASURE ISLANDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 231, 1 December 1916, Page 7 (Supplement)

TREASURE ISLANDS.

THERE ARE SOME FEW REAL ONES. There are quite a number of islands scattered about the globe wneron buried treasure exists. And people are always trying to find it. Quite a score of attempts have been made, far instance, to unearth the treasure alleged to be buried on Cocos Island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped no reward for their toil. Fully £''"0,000 has been wasted, again, in :utile attempts to recovei the "pirates' hoard" reported to be hidden near the lip of the crater of an active—very active—volcano on Pagan Island, in the Lardone 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 of between £150,000 and £200.000 on Auckland Island some years back; nor that William Watson, a shepherd, recovered in 1868 nearly a ton of gold that had been hidden aiway 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 coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.