A TREASURS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4281, 19 April 1879, Page 3

A TREASURS.

A magnificent treasure haa been brought to light (the " G-lobe" states) at a point seventy miles north of Taganrog,, just outside the boundaries of a Welsh settlement, which, after its founder, Mr Hughes, haa received the official designation of. "Uz>vkft." A peasant, being observed to grow suddenly rich and to launch into a luxurious style of living without any obvious cause, except an occasional excursion to Tagai.rog, was watched for some [lime by the police, and at lest conveyed before the Slavianoveki magistrate., To him he persisted in telling that he had received a legacy from au ancle, but beinjj reminded that he had neve? had a relative of that degree, he confessed that hut opulence arose from the discovery of a hidden treasure. The locality of this happy "find" of his he refused to disclose until he had been promised the clemency of the Government, when, he led the magistrates and officials to en ordinary-looking mound, not very far from whore the Welsh colonists were burrowing for coal and iror. Hero he unearthed ft piece of etone, which on being lifted disclosed the entrance to a vault, which apparently had served as the cellar to some castlo or mansion before the Cossack invasion. Inside this vault, at the foot of somo stono 6tcp», wore found seventeen oaken kegs or chests, cramnsed with Turkieh gold dueate. Tne weight of the gold, we ere assured by the "Official Journal," was found to exceed 200 poods, or 72001b., whioh, if of tolerably pure metal, should realise afe leait a quarter of a, million sterling. All this goea into the pocket of the Czar, and, unless the " Official Journal" has appended an extra "0" by mistake, Hia Majesty should be very Hush of coin for a considerable time to come. The Welsh colonist*, who number some 200 families, are greatly aggrieved, we are told, that tfc© treasure wsw not discovered by them, in which case we have no'doubt there would have been been a rapid migration of the Cymri, with portmanteaus fall of ducats, to the Euesian frontier. Bat they have some consolation in the sanguine belief that other hoards of Turkish gold may exist upon the " steppe;" and every leisure moment is now tpent in excavating auspicious tumuli in the outskirts of their settlement. " '