The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-17
STORIES OF GOOD LUCK
Veracous Anecdotes of instances Where Fortune
Smiled Just When it was Needed Most

! his spade that it gIistened with silver
! coins.
| Attracted by the digger's exclamation
of establishment and delight his fellow
workmen hurried up. In a moment half
a dozen men were scrambling for the
treasure, feverishly filling their pockets
and hats and beer cans with the silver
coins, which were worth more than their
weight in gold, for they were of the
time of the first two Edwards and had
lain in the river for 500 years.
The bulk of the treasure trove was
ultimately claimed by the Duchy OF
Lancaster but it's finders had already
appropriated thousands of the precious
pieces. A story comes from Russia of a
student, who, failing to obtain Gov
eminent appointment, retired in dis
gust to a small holding on the west
coast of the Caspian Sea, resolved to
quit the world, and, by cultivating
fruits and vegetables, live on his land.
tre planted his crops and then proceed
eb % sink a we'll in his small ornamen-
tai back garden.
While digging this lucky individual
was knocked down by a fountain of
petroleum that burst up from the
ground. Within a week he had sold his
property to syndicate for substant-
ial sum. When last heard of this erst-
while recluse was riding in his own
carriage in Paris with a poodle dog fol-
lowing in another equipage. A London
Police Inspector thought that he had
fallen into piece of rare good luck the
other day and was just about to retire
from the force to home on the Thames.
He was looking over Westminster
Bridge at low tide when he saw some
shining objects on the concrete foun-
dations of the pillars. These proved to
be ingots of silver.
Seventeen ingotS were found, weigh
ing in all about 500 ounces They were,
no doubt melted down from stolen sill
yer articles and contained little gold,
probably from fused gold watch cases.
The theory was that they had been de-
posted there by thieves who had not
calculated that at low tide the things
would be uncovered by water.
The coroner sat upon the case, and
instead of turning them over to the
Inspector, seized them for the treasure.
John Whitaker, of 90 Chesterfield road
Montpelier, Bristol, England, is thank
ing his lucky stars for the recovery of
sum of money that he had buried in
South Africa.
Whitaker, when in Grahamstown,
had about EGG, the remains of legacy
from an aunt. He was not disposed to
lend the money nor to deposit it in a
bank so he buried it in Huntley street
of that place. He intended to leave it
there until he left town, but when he
went to get it again he could not find
the exact spot
He returned to England, and being in
hard straits he wrote to the Mayor of
Grahamstown, asking him to have a
search made for the money.
"a gang of municipal laborers," says
South Africa, went with the rough plan
which Mr.. Whitaker had inclosed in
his letter, and the money was found
about thee inches below the surface,
close to the ditch, between the foot
bridge near the police quarters and the
small clump of bushes. The parcel in
which the money was wrapped had rotted
away and the money had dropped to
the bottom of the hole. The exact
amount recovered was f63 9s Id. This
sum, less expenses, has been forwar-
ded to Mr.. Whitaker by the Mayor"