STRANGE FIND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1003, 12 September 1882, Page 3

STRANGE FIND.

A Sydney telegram states that a lucky find of a large sum of money is said by the Evening Nens to hare been made recently by a furniture dealer under very singular circumstances. The man attended an auction sale of furniture at Petersham, and had knocked down to him at a "ridiculously low figure " an old bookcase which no one present, the buyer included, thought of much value. When it came into his possession, however, he was agreeably astonished to discover hid away in one of the drawers, a hag full of gold and silver coins ; also, several valuable documents, such as title-deeds of property, worth, it was said, about How all this came to be stowed away in Buch a place wis a mystery ; and, strange to say. the original owner, or supposed owner, of these valuables was not even aware of their existence in the bookcise. This extraordinary find created some excitement when it became known, The

flrst [.■.-■M->s<>r of the bookcase, the Petersham gentlcrir n, asserted and insisted upon his su| crior claim. Ih<-auctiom-cr, thought he, too, p<»ssiblv possessed a right, and the lucky buyer of th 3 bookcase considered his claim would hold good. The property was, however, handed back to the first-men-tioned person, who then rewarded the furniture dealer with—athreepeny pipe !