THREE MILLION BURIED SOVEREIGNS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 69, 17 April 1909, Page 3

THREE MILLION BURIED SOVEREIGNS.

The slurllini! story of the hidden treasure of Iviug "liOljuugulii, which is now agitating South Africa, is in the main probable unite correct. ■Vccor'dhig to the 'Transvaal Lender, it consists of .■C3.OOO,(XH) in British coined "old. besides liar gold and * ,st qiiaulitfes of diamonds, and ten waggon ' That, the d'uskv tliUf of the .Uataheli was possessed of great wealth at the I time of his death is fairly certain It was seen liv mativ while people of repute one of whom estimated the total value of the hoard as being certainly not less Urnn live millions sterling. Very little of this '»'«* found at his capflnl Buluwavo. wlivn It was ocrn- ! pied liv the Chartered Company's forces ' jn November. 18!>31 lint a certain amount of coined "old 'was discovered and .looted iiy the licchuannlaiid police, who Were fll'st inTims, two inen, uamv.il Wilson and Daniels, -were proved later on to have appropriated one thousand sovereigns I between them, and were sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude. Another man. who escaped, carried oil tl-200 in his saddle-bags. Hut, for the most part the treasure was removed, by Loliengulu's orders before the British occupation, and it is known that it accompanied the '" ,is wanderings up the Zambesi valley What became of it after liw death, liow- ' ever. Ims always been a myst tv This mvsterv. it is confidently atflrinen, is'',\ow'about to be cleared up. a party of prospectors from .lohannesl,„rg being actually on their way to the spot where they say they know it to lie buried. The cost of their expedition is h>h, some £SOOO in all, for U.e district where they are operating is a ravage i„d desolate one. flat if ««om croons their efforts, and they are confident that it will, ttoy will recoup thcms.elves a thousand times over.