REAL TREASURE ISLANDS.
♦ i HUNTS FOR BURIED GOLD. There are a number of islands scattered about the world whereon huvi*-d j treasure exists. And people are always trying to find it. . . Quite a score of attempts '■ have been made, for instance, to unearth the treasure alleged to be buried on Cocoa Island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped no reward for their toil. Fully £50.000 has been wasted, again, in futijc attempts to recover the "pirates' hoard? reported to be hidden near the lip of the orator of an active —very active—volcano on Pagan Island, in" .the Ladrone Group. Still, as a set-off against many-failures, there have been a few successes. There »-* -?o A»iiKt.. 'f.-ir instance, that' a Liverpool sailor named' John Adams unearthed treasure to the value, of between £150,000 and £200.000 on Auckland Island some years back ; while William Watson, aj shepherd recovered in 1868 nearly a ton j of gold that had been hidden,on one of!. :he Queen Charlotte Island.--. Likewise, two runaway seamen, named Jlandley and Cross, successfully located and dug up a valuable hoard on Oak Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 14 (Supplement)
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