A Story of Buried Treasure.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 3

A Story of Buried Treasure.

The Paris correspondent of the 'Daily Telegraph ' sends a statement concerning a chest containing nearly a million of francs in gold and silver coinage, which js said to have been reposing for the last seventy-six-years a foot or two undergiound, within a stone's throw of an important Ru&sian highway, in the neighbourhood of Bielostock, in the Grodno district. The Czar's Minister of the Interior has, it is said, just despatched a special committee to dig up the chest and its contents at the point indicated. The treasure is a relic of the 'Keti-eat of Napoleon's Grand Amide/ This research is due to the initiative of a Frenchman, M. Villebaude Jonnich, who has been ransacking i-ome manuscripts left) by his father, one of the stoutest troopers in the Emperor's host. The old gentleman related that he was with a detachment acting as escort to this chest, which contained - the sum of £34,000 sterling, when the,corivoy was pursued by a strong force of Cossack". Seeing that escape was impossible, the party hastily buried the chest* close to the Bielostock road, along which ib was riding, and soon afterwards every man was cut to pieces with the exception of Jonnich, who lived to tell the tale in some memoirs penned for the benefit of his rein fives. If the chest be really found, M. Villebaude Jonnich will, according to Russian law, be entitled as informer to a third of the booty, or ClO.OOO.