A “SPEC” AND ITS POSSIBILITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4817, 14 March 1918, Page 6

A “SPEC” AND ITS POSSIBILITIES.

(To tlie Editor.) Sir, —Our old friend “A. Hawes” has revived interest in a little matter over which I was over many years prone to do a lot of worrying. Like himself I have always been deeply interested in the fate of the ./Ark of the Covenant, the Tables of the Law and the other sacred things of Jew-ish-antiquity which have so long been numbered amongst the missing. Mr. Hawes feel confident that they now repose somewhere near the Irish city which was favored with the beautiful title of “Tara.” If he is right it Is a wonder to me that he is not anxious to float a company to search for these precious things. he any conception as to their worth? 1 venture to say that the Jewish people would not take long in finding a hundred millions to repay the finders of the long articles. Mr. Hawes does not attempt to explain how the prophet Jeremiah found a means to transport the Ark and the Tables and the sacred vessels to Ireland. If tradition be correct, it would have been a prodigious undertaking to remove the Ark alone, covered as it was with gold, such a long distance. Mr. Hawes should explain if he has any special information as to what became of the missing articles. _ I have long come to the conclusion that no human being has any idea, otherwise the secret would have been out long ago, for it is impossible to believe that, in the course of time, they could have escaped finding their way into the hands of some wealthy person or institution as it. would be impossible for everybody in possession of the secret to resist the temptation to turn their knowledge-into Bold. I know that many people beeve that a grand discovery is some day to be made in an arched repository under tlie tomb of the Princess Tea Teplii. near the banks of the Boyne. But if that be so, why is so much money being allowed to be spent in the explorations in the sacred territory? Mr. Hawes has now a grand chance to put people right ou the matter. It would save a lot of worry if he will only tell all he knows on the point.—l am, yours, et " INQUIRER.