Sheep-Farming in Southland: Some Snapshots at the Bur wood Sale, Mararoa. MORE HIDDEN TREASURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 41

Sheep-Farming in Southland : Some Snapshots at the Bur wood Sale, Mararoa.

MORE HIDDEN TREASURE.

ficat a co'ou s tion sch mo for fie uninlij'b'ted turntoiv the British Government, in 1895, stepped in and c'aimed the island as Bi- 1 bh tontory, \yit 't the object of making it a cub c station on the AngloB.azilian line.

I' 1 182G" Trinidad Island was formally an nexed by Riron Harden Hickev, a. FrnnooAinenean adventurer, who had mairiod a daughter of Mr H M. F'agler. th" Standard Oil milloinairo. H» eal'ed hinrelf James I ot Trinidad, but just as he was about to

great va'ue. Several members of the T)\~ccery Antarctic expedition landed on the island on the outward voyage. They found th place swarminsr with giganil^ loathsome land crabs, with hideous toggle eyee, which roamed over t' c i-'and in millions.

for Rio Janiero, where he intends, with the other members of the syndicate, to charter a schoon-er to land them on the inand. In addition to th<* wrecs, Captain Kent believes that there is buried in the coi:tre of the island a pirate's treasure of

for several day*, found on the southern si. ores of Trinidad Is'and several Spanish flcn'bloons, and he is of opinion that they hc've been cast up from the wrecks of Spanish ga'leons. For nearly 10 years he L**)t his secret, but has just left England

sure. A syndicate, it is said, has boon veiy quietly formed in London for an expedition to Trinidad Island, 700 miles from the coast of Brazil, in the Atlantic. Captain Kent, of the merchant service, who landed from his barque, which had been becalmed

» The interest taken in Lord Fitzwilliam's passing call" on Oocos Island has caused '" boom " in the search for buried trea-