SUNKEN TREASURE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 25

SUNKEN TREASURE.

ANOTHER GENERAL GRANT EXPEDITION.

The story of the search for the General Grant's gold, lost off the Auckland Islands in the sixties of last century, is not yet closed. Another chapter in the romance was opened very quietly and unobtrusively on the 29th ult, when the cutter Enterprise weighed anchor and made off down the harbour bound for Bluff and the Auckland Islands. She is a modest little craft in charge of Captain Catling, a seaman who has himself visited the Auckland Islands and made a study of the locality where the wreck of the General Grant occurred. The Enterprise has been about Dunedin for some months past, being thoroughly equipped and fitted up by a small syndicate of local gentlemen, who have reason to believe in the captain's ability to locate and recover part at least of the lost treasure. Even a small part would well repay the syndicate, for it was the largest shipment of gold taken from Australia up to that time that went down with the General Grant. Tho Enterprise carries five hands all told. Captain Catling is himself the diver of _ the expedition. His second in command ie a Norwegian, and the other three are young New Zealanders. After taking in a few more stores and supplies at Bluff thoy will niako for the Auckland Islands, and there wait favourable conditions for the difficult task of actually locating the wreck, and reaching her precious cargo. It adds another touch of interest to this unusually interesting venture to learn that the oil launch which Captain Catling is taking with him, is the one which a few years ago saved 26 lives from the wreck of th<j Cape Bristow, at the Auckland Islands.