KRUGER'S KOIN.
Treasure-seeking has- become a regular industry, m which considerable British capital is invested. The latest coincident enterprise m this direction is that of a new treasureseeking company with a capital of £25,000., which is sending a salvage ship tjo try and bring up the £050, OO'O m gold which President Kruger was sending m the Dorothea to South America at the time of the Boer war, when the shin was wrecked off the coast of Zululand. Five other wrecks oft the Soutll African coast will be salved by the company which has obtained the exclusive concessions from the Cape Government for that purpose, three of them being old Dutch galleons wrecked m the seventeenth century.
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NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 8
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117KRUGER'S KOIN. NZ Truth, Issue 92, 23 March 1907, Page 8
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