REAL TREASURE ISLANDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19011, 6 November 1923, Page 8

REAL TREASURE ISLANDS.

9 HUNT'S FOR BURIED GOLD. There are a number of islands scattered about the world whereon buried 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 Cocos Island. Yet so far the adventurers have reaped no reward for their toil. Fully £50,000 has been wasted, again, in futile attempts to recover the “pirates’ hoard” reported to be. hidden near the lip of the crater of an active—very active—volcano on Pagan Island, in the Ladrona Group. Still, as a set-off against many failures, there have been a few successes. There is no doubt, for 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, a shepherd, recovered in 1868 nearly a ton of gold that had been hidden on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Likewise, two runaway seamen, named Handley and Cross, successfully located and dug up a valuable hoard ,on Oak Island, off fhe coast of Nova Scotia, and this after many others had failed.