SILVER PLATE FOUND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16763, 12 June 1920, Page 6

SILVER PLATE FOUND.

In a backyard garden on Artichoke Hill, St. George’s-in-the-East, has been found a valuable lot of silver plate, including the following articles:—Four coffee pots, three jugs, two flower stands, one cruet, one salt cellar, two matchbox stands, five dessert spoons, two forks, one mustard stand. “One of my little boys,” said Mr. Simon Pasher to a Daily Chronicle representative, “was digging in a small piece of ground at the back of the house when lie came across two spoons. Ho showed them to me, and 1 found a lot of other silver-plate articles. “I am a dealer, and I know something about plate, and I think some of the articles must be about a hundred years old by the style of the engraving. “All'the plate was marked .‘Waring K. 852. Waldorf Castle.’ “The articles were all found less than a foot under the surface. I immediately informed the police, and they have taken possession of the plate. The police from Leman Street dug a deep hole in the same spot, but the only tilings they discovered, so far ns I know, were one or two very old human bones, which fell to piece's almost as soon as they were touched.”