Show g Barnato Missed a Rare Bare Gem Gam GamIt HIt It is the custom raid aid H A Stan Stanhope hope hODe bo e of Cape ape Town South Africa at the Hotel Victoria yesterday each year veer t te I Isell sell the output of the Kimberley Kimberle fields to the highest bidder The Th diamonds are sold solA soldat soldat I at so much a carat without reference td the size ize of the stones although stones be below below below low a certain weight are not in the agree ment Obviously the larger the stoner stone found the better it is for tor the purchaser for the value of or a diamond increase enormously with each carat This lead lend to toa toa toft a ft most extraordinary occurrence Barnev Barney Barnatt had the fields one year ear but bt Alfred Belt Beit outbid him and got them for forthe fo the t year vear following rollo n The first blast fired under the Beit Belt management dislodged the largest diamond ever cr found It weighed oer over carets carats in the rough and its value is H simply incalculable If Barnato hat had ha fired tired one more bla blast n tx his lease was Wa nt UD lip the diamond would have become his hist hiso As it t wan ws however it became a the t prop fh c cM i fd o of oC Alfred if Belt Beit It is said that the thi shah sheh M h of Persia is now negotiating n for its purchase If he gets it hell have ht e to put Dut a mortgage on a good slice of his hig empire to ro pay for it It That one diamond dramond was worth far more more than thc th entire yield from the fields for the previous relOUS year ear 11 |