THE MISSING ANGLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 60, 12 March 1923, Page 7

THE MISSING ANGLER.

I ' 1 BODY FOUND IX RIS'HR. > (By Tclezraph.—Press Aswii-ialiou.) IXVERCA RO I I.E. Saturday. The body of .hums (iillie Piit'ers.in Spenee was found floating to-day in tho Oreti River. The deceased left last .Saturday on a fishing trip, and had not been seen since. It is thought that deceased hooked a fish and was gaffing

it when part of the bank gave way, causing him to fall into the river. £300 WORTH OF GOLD FOR 1/. There's an old saying, which is still said. "Once a fossieker, always a fossicker.'' Old diggers who have ceased to dig aver that -there's as much gold ill the earth as ever canto out of it." and. "if I had a bit of capital I could lind'' (etc.. etc.). S'ery likely there will he tplenty of old diggers, ynunu diggers. grandfathers, grandmothers, pas and I mas,' and pieaninnios after the £+.10 [ worth of alluvial gold. Yon do not Have ' to dig for it —just have to buy an art 1 union ticket and wait for tlie result. There »re tc ba -hree results in tiie Auckland Cswrfvit! aiTtiTial gold art ' union—somebody will be startled by receiving £300 worth of gold. 1 Someone else will be pleasantly surprised at the receipt of £10(1 ' worth, while the third prize winner 'is to reap a golden harvest of fiiO. Old ' hands used often to "camp a hatter" on ' a pitch and live for a half-year on loz. worth £4. For a fossieker to find a • lump worth £1100 would be an event necessitating the presence of an armed guard and—a carnival. Auckland is . having the carnival- and the "old. i Tickets on sale at Carnival Office.*"].->•_, Queen Street.— (Ad.)