VAIN TREASURE SEARCH.
£900,000 FOUND 30 YEARS AGO.
Br Telegraph.—Press Association.—
[Received August 18, 5.5 p.m.)
London, August 17. Colonel Fawcett, a well-known explorer, states that the party that is seeking for hidden treasure in Bolivia is wasting its energies.
Thirty years ago, he says, a Bolivian gentleman discovered the Jesuit hoard, and quietly unearthed treasure to the value of £900,000.
A cablegram published last Monday stated that the assets of Arthur Ostesby, a 'bankrupt company-promoter, included a £10,000 share, in supposed treasure valued at £11,000,000, which Jesuits buried at Sacanbaya, in Bolivia in 1767. An expedition is now searching for the treasure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15075, 19 August 1912, Page 7
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