BURIED TREASURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 126, 31 May 1939, Page 9

BURIED TREASURE.

MANY CLAIMANTS.

COLD FOUND AFTER 200 YEARS. (Special—By Air Mall.) LONDON, May 13. A legal battle is now raping in Paris over the destiny of a hoard of gold which for nearly 200 years had lain in a poor quarter of the town. The treasure, which comprises .1555 gold pieces, wa - found bv workmen who were demolishing houses last year. When they unearthed the first pieces the workmen hailed the event as a wind■alv because, according to French law, the hoard would be equally divided between the finders and the owners of the property on which it was found. But as gold was unearthed with every brick turned over, five faded parchment wills were also revealed. All these wills artsaid to be in favour of Anne, the daughter of Louiri Nivelle, who held a pos: in t]ie Royal Court in 1755. When the news was published claims flowed ii: from Anne Nivelle's many livins descendants, of which there are now •ilmost as many as gold pieces. One of. the claimants is an assi-tan' governc I of the Bank of France. j As the number "' lii'iiants to the; 7okl hoard Increase-- nearly every day. it is like'y that >• heu the legal battle nver. will lie very lit;.'. 1 left ■ the -*i*i 1i t* "fortune"' to be divided, among the winners. i