GENERAL GRANT'S TREASURE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 102, 16 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL GRANT'S TREASURE

ANOTHER SALVAGE EXPEDITION. By Telegraph!— Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Information has been received -here that Mr. E. C. May intends to make another effort to secure the treasure from the ship General Grant, which was wrecked at the Auckland Islands many years ago. A. letter from Mr. May, dated .San Francisco, contains, the intimation that he has purchased a threemaster sailing ship with 150 Ih.p. engine. Her carrying capacity will be six times that of the Wairoa, which was purchased by Mr. May when in New Zealand to take the expedition south, but which was eventually sold to liquidate the preliminary liabilities. The iittingout will be completed at San Francisco. Some of the machinery js. being manufactured in New York." Mr. May stater, that he has engaged Captain Miller (a salvage expert)., and an American engineer who was in touch at San Francisco for four years with one of the survivors of the General Grant, named Con Drew, the man who pointed out the scene of the wreck to Messrs. Stevens and McDonald. This engineer tried to form a company at one time to put to good purpose the information he had obtained, but failed for lack of ready money.