DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN BUTE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1781, 6 April 1874, Page 3

DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN BUTE.

" Goid in Bute 1" Such was the metallic cry which ran throughout the length and breadth of bonny Scotland the other day. " Every one was on the alert, for this was the second.time that'the announcement had been made during the past two years, Gold in Bute! took our cautious neighbours by surprise, and they argued that, if the report should turn out to be true, and gold were really discovered, in paying . -■:.. quantities, nearly every Scotchman would rush "book" to his "native heather"iu order to participate in thegeneral scramble for this new-found wealtli. fhe Scotch Press called it an " interesting discovery," " and a youth named Lindsay was credited with " taking up a piece of quartz" whioh, Dr. Peter White, President of the Archaeological Society of Bute, immediately pronouncsd ,to be auriferous." Upon this dictum the exoitement in-. • creased, .and the impression was pretty > general that enough of tho preoious metal would be found to render every inhabitant x of the ancient kingdom independent, and to ; discharge the national debt, into xthe, bargain. The time-honoured "bawbee," • by which so muoh store had been set' in timas past, was in future to become a . thing to be despised, and they would have golden threepences if only to perpetuate. the remembrance of suoh a glorious find. Judge then of the disappointment whioh must have oppressed every breast when the Bothsay Chronick, in its ruthless, • and ourt my, stated that the " reoent interesting discovery" "turns'out to be no discovery at all." And thou the editor goes on to state" that oil oareful ; t investigation it has been found that a boy had in his possession a bit of .Australian gold, whioh, as boys are wont to do with,-' ■' their valuables, he kept in his pocket. ■ He unfortunately lost his treasure, which "' got picked up by another boy, and so the , " interesting discovery" was made.' Thus -■ ends the wonderful disoovery of " Gold in Bute."