BURIED SOVEREIGNS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 23

BURIED SOVEREIGNS

TEN THOUSAND OF THEM, AN INTERESTING STORY. Sydney, April 24. A hoard of gold hidden by his uncle, sifter the financial crashes of 1893, is rumoured to have been unearthed on his farm, near Largs, West Maitland, by Mr. Jack Univombe. Interviewed by the Daily Telegraph Pictorial, Mr. Jack Unicombe denied that he had the gold, but admitted he knew a lot about it. He says that the relatives of the late Mr. W. E. Bobly, his uncle, are pressing him to disclose what Mr. Gobly told him tho night before he died. Mr, Unicombe states that he does not know the exact spot, but that if those v/lio want the money offer a suitable reward they might get something. They had offered him 10 per cent., he said, but this he had refused. “In a month’s time you may have something to write about,” Mr. Unicorn’-a candidly admitted. He did not know what right he would have to money found on his farm. “They have told me it’s theirs,” he said, “and that I would have to hand it to the Government.”

An interesting story is attached to the supposed hoard. During the bank crash of 1893, it. is stated that Go'bly withdrew from a bank about £lO,OOO ic sovereigns. It is said he would not

take weight, and insisted on the bank officials counting the money. It took two days. He brought home two lots of sovereigns in a sugar-bag, on horseback. Prior to his death, seven years ago, a robbery occurred. Gobly was very frightened, and Unicombe went to live with him. This was a year before he