SUNKEN TREASURE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10902, 20 October 1911, Page 3

SUNKEN TREASURE.

(Pek Press Association.) Auckland, October 20. Captain N. C. Sorensen, formerly employed as a diver Hy the Auckland Harbor Board, now of this city, proposes, in conjunction with a partner in Dunedin, to fit out an expedition to cost about £IO,OOO and proceed from Dunedin to the Auckland Islands to endeavor to recover tho. bullion believed to have been lost in the General Grant, wrecked in 1860. Four previous attempts to recover this treasure were unsuccessful. but Sorensen believes that by working through from the seaward side his attempt will succeed. His idea is to land an expedition on the leeward side, cut a road across to the wreck, and operate by means of derricks erected on the cliff.