HIDDEN GOLD.
FISHERMAN’S FIND. VANCOUVER, Feb. 22. A message from Nassau in the Bahamas, states that tlie police have reported that Gerald Fitzgerald, a poverty-stricken fisherman, found five bars of gold valued at 60,000 dollars, buried beneath a wild plrim tree on the shore of. New Providence Island. Apparently the gold is an ancient pirate treasure. Tlie hiding-place was marked with a Freemason’s insignia.
The British Government acquires approximately two-thirds of the gold’s value.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 72, 24 February 1932, Page 7
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74HIDDEN GOLD. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 72, 24 February 1932, Page 7
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