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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 211, 5 September 1891, Page 4

SEARCHING 3?OR JAMES THE SECOND'S CROWN. A ROMA-NTIC story comes from the pretty village of Triel. Thero, it is said .(writes the Times correspondent), James 11. buried his orown and tho valuable relies of his family, and for more than forty years all ove*,* the neigh: bourhood, from timo-to time, people have dug for the buried treasure. Nearly half a century ago a mysterious woman, appeared at Triel. She bought a house and large estates, and went up and down the village, having no dealings with the inhabitants, and arduaiug great curiosity ; but after a timo some neighbours mado her acquaintance, and learned that she was in search of the crown of James 11. Legend and romance soon took root in the Boil upturned by this odd woman's mysterious diggings on her estates, and rumour finally eaid that the lady, Mdme, Deville, was a daughter of George IV. and Queen Caroline, and in prCof thereof tho Meur de Lis, as everybody knew, wae on her shoulder. Moreover in her bedroom was an ancient bed ado*, ned with crownß on escutcheons. Lord Palmerßton was said to have visited her. Finally she died, but tho legend did hot die with her. The land was sold, to a person who had received her coufidehce, and who continued the quest. Thi-^- successor was a Parasian shop-. , keeper. Tho digging still continues, and still the crown with its priceless Btoneß remains undiscovered. Oanon Bagot stated at the British dairy farmers' conference that -£200,000 have been expended in the erection of butter factories in Ireland, and that a factory in Limerick receives 15,000 galloins, of milk daily.. Sir "William Siemens method of apply. y '_ ing electric light to grow flowers and ;1 : frnit by night or. on cloudy days haa ij been employed with good success on :-'.-■ Ijoard a West Indian steamer to keep V alive exotio vines and other plants. %.-':■ Professor Lazaras Rodney of London : :i "5 is said -to give in a course of sixteen iK-lapigores such an insight into tho arts and begging in- all its phases thafc his graduates are assured of an easy fc '*■ '