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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8857, 6 July 1907, Page 1

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. .iu wwan——mmumwiii mwnnewei Parliament will soon be in to season [ the speeches. Buy an ! EDISON PHONOGRAPH AND RECORDS FEOSI THE PHONEBIEg, (Opposite Railway Platform!, Main Steeet. PALMERSTON N. Come r.nd bear one. Our Selection ; s unexcelled in New Zealand. SECRETS OF COCOS ISLAND.

' Admiral H. Si. L, B. Pallisor, ' ■who died recently at his countryhouse in Ohicester, served in the Baltic and Black Soa during the Crimean war, and was in command of a squadron watching British inferos! s throughout the Carlist war lin 1871,. Ho was the Oommander-in-Oliief of the Pacific Squadron from 189 Gto 189!). It was during his command in the Pacific that Admiral Pallisor. came into possession of what he thought to be the secret of the buried treasures of the famous Cocos Island, and on board Her Majesty’s ship Imporienso made the first of a long scries of ineffectual efforts to unearth the “secret” from Captain Hackett when the latter was on his deathbed, and was so impressed by it that despite all failures he remained a firm believer in _ the | existence of the treasure.

The story of the Cocos Island treasures is one of a most romantic and thrilling character. One vast hoard of valuables is supposed to have been deposited on the island, which lies 500 miles south-west of Panama, by a British ship which had turned pirate, in 1831. The second, and more valuable treasure, was buried there by the crow of the barquentiue Mary Dior, about 1835. This hoard was supposed to be the bullion and jewels of the Peruvian town of Callao, which was threatened with revolution and pillage. The national treasure was put on board the British ship for safety, but the crew betrayed their trust and fled with the rich cargo. The value of the two treasures is supposed to be many millions At least £6OOO worth of valuables were taken from the island by a man called Keaton. This man died and bequeathed the secret to i Hackett. Since the latter confided in Admiral Palliser some half-dozen fruitless expeditions have been fitted out and have searched the soil of the I island. One of the latest was led by Earl Pitzwilliam, in 1905, but his party met with a disaster in the shape of a landslide during blasting operations, and seven of them were injured. Several companies have been formed to equip expeditious, but needless to say none of them has ever paid a dividend. A WATER-LOVING TOM-CAT. A tabby tom-cat which I reared from a kitten and which is now nearly three years old possesses, says F. T. Bullen, the well-known author, in a letter to the Spectator, more amiable characteristics and paradoxical peculiarities than I have over known a cat have before, and I have loved cats all my life. Ho. bathes like a seal, having taught himself in a sponge-bath when about three months old, and thoroughly enjoys a romp with my big Labrador dog afterwards to get dry. He is a perfect demon for fledgling birds walking all over the front of the ivy-clad house and hooking them from their nests very often pouching fourteen a day. Yet ho lies in the dining-room, where a gold-finch, a siskin and a linnet fly backwards and forwards continuously, often brushing close past his head, and of them lie never takes the slightest notice. As I write he is mothering a belated chicken ■which was extracted from its shell by ourselves this morning, the lien having left the nest with twelve others. It is snuggling between the oat’s hindlegs and peeping out tween them most comically. I must add that this cat has never been beaten or trained in any way except by a quiet word,

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