Col. Mulberry Sellers was in his “library”, which was his “drawing-room”, and was also his “picture-gallery”, and likewise his “workshop”. Sometimes he called it by one of these names, sometimes by another, according to occasion and circumstance.
Today, he was researching the rumour that there was gold to be found in the hills of Wellington. As early as 1852, traces of treasure had been found at Cape Terawhiti (near what we, today, know as Karori), and, in the 1870s and 1880s, a number of quartz reefs were worked but yielded very little of the precious metal.
The Colonel – who by now was a white-headed man but otherwise as young, alert, buoyant, visionary and enterprising as ever – had his own theory: that the prospectors of that initial gold rush had got it wrong. It was not Karori, but rather Kilbirnie, that would yield riches untold.
Being a generous old chap, the Colonel is quite happy to share the spoils with whoever does the hard yards and physically locates the lode, and to this end he has kindly provided coordinates that he anticipates will be especially propitious. Will you be the one to strike it lucky?
As Col. Mulberry likes to say, “There’s millions in it!"
Please take care when retrieving and hiding the cache - an apartment building nearby looks like it could afford excellent views of the site, plus quite a few people use the walkway.
Ps. The GPS can be a bit bouncy in this area.