Pirate's Gold .
" Romance comes up with the 9.15," as Mr. Kipling tells us. And in the sedate columns of Tuesday's Times there is the story of a pirate's gold that has actually been found just where all romantic, treasure- hunters would look for it. Mr. George Fitzgerald, fisherman, of New Providence in the Bahamas, was the lucky finder. When he talked about it, the incredulous police put him in gaol and went-to look for themselves. But for once the story was true. There were, indeed, no doubloons nor pieces of eight, nor even a skeleton with a red cap. But there were five bars of gold, duly concealed amid rocks with a masonic mark upon them, in accordance with the practice of all good buccaneers, It is pleasant to know that Mr. Fitzgerald will get is third of this treasure-trove, valued at, £12,000, and that the rest will help to support sterling. • But the chance find will do harm if it leads to more of those treasure- hunting expeditions in the West Indies. on which so much time and money have been wasted.
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