GENERAL GRANT COLD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 27, 30 September 1915, Page 2

GENERAL GRANT COLD.

LATEST ATTEMPT AT RECOVERY. j An Invercargill Press Association j telegram says: The cutter ItnbetI prise returned to Bluff yesterday alter a search for the gold on the General Grant, which was wrecked at Auckland Islands half a century ago. for three mouths’ Captain Calling and party explored the coast line, using a centre-hoard canoe in the b a/.unions work, and located the cavern, whore, it is supposed, the General Grant sank. On several occasions the party >)iad narrow escapes, and the canoe !w as wrecked. The party returned j for provisions and a new launch. The | Enterprise is fitted out with the most I complete diving, electrical, observation equipment south of the Line, including air compressors, which supply the diver with air tor two hours without pumping. Captain Catling leaves in a few weeks to recover the gold, and is sanguine of success. The .Dunedin correspondent ol the “Star” stales that the latest attempt to rescue the gold lost in the General Grant at the Auckland Islands in 1800 has, like those that preceded it, has doomed to failure. Mr Catling, the prime mover in the matter, together with the party which left Dunedin in May last, have just returned from their unprofitable movement end it is understood (although no detads arc yet available) that the work they did and the hearings they took clearly establish at that recovery is not possible direct from the side The party left wire and' apparatus on the spot for another attempt, working from a platform on the elitf, so that the venture is apparently not yet given over. It will be remembered that the ship drifted into a sort of cave and lies in 100 ft o fwater.