RAND DIAMOND STORY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2501, 16 June 1920, Page 2

RAND DIAMOND STORY.

SEARCH FOR LOST MINE. According to the “Rand Daily Mail,” a private syndicate, formed for the purpose of locating a lost diamond mine, hais begun operations. The story goes back three years, when an old prospector, said to bo an Englishman, after nine years’ absence, turned up on the Rand. He had with wlitih 187 carats of da almonds, which he brought to test the market. The result was satisfactory, and later he returned with 600 carats of picked stones. Tho Englishman, being in the employ of a German company, felt certain of his inability to get a title, and so preferred to get the diamonds in his own way. Subsequently the war broke out, and when the Germans were conquered he formed a syndicate to work not only the German mine, but also the mine he himself had found, but discovered that he could not get a license until peace was declared. #

He died within a year. ITis papers have been carefully examined, but they contained uo reference to the whereabouts of the mine. Tho only available information seems to bo the following:—(1) Diamonds will be found in a large and narrow rocky crevice, which is being continually covered nr filled in by moving sand ; (2) the discoverer only went there occasionally, and always a nine ; (3) the only tools he took with him consisted of a small sieve a small spade, and a gardener’s trowel, which he carried in large pockets in Ins long linen coat; (4) the diamonds, which arc said to he worth millions, are in this long crevice buried in tile sand.