SUNKEN TREASURE.
With a capital of £00,000, in £5 shares, half being ordinary and half founders', an undertaking has been formed, under the title of tho Aboultir Bay Treasure Recovery Company," Limited, with the object of carrying out a contract entered into a conce.'sionnaire from the Egyptian Government for the recovery of the treasure in certain ships lying at easily accessible depths in A-bouUir Bay. The prospectus states that " the treasure to be recovered consists of what was contained in two French ships, one the magnificent three-decker L'Orknt, a line-of-battlo ship sunk by Nelson at the battle of the Nile, and the other the Maza Munde, a large trausport, also sunk in Aboukir Bay. It is a known fact that the former vessel had 011 board specie equivalent to £'<00,000 sterling ; and there is every reason to believo that the latter vessel when she foundered contained a large amount of specie, as it stated o.n good authority that the had been despatched with money to Bonaparte to pay the arrears doe to tho French forces."
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Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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175SUNKEN TREASURE. Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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