["The Southern Cross Pearl", The Western Mail (Perth, WA), Saturday 08 August 1908, page 27]
THE SOUTHERN CROSS PEARL.
The extraordinary pearl, or rather or rather cluster of pearls, known as tho Southern Cross, is probably the most remarkable production of its kind that Nature has ever produced. So far as is known it occupies an absolutely unique position in the history of pearls. It consists of a group of nine pearls, naturally grown together in so regular a manner as to form an almost perfect Latin cross. Seven pearls compose the shaft, which measures an inch and a half in length, while the two arms of the cross an formed by one pearl on each side almost opposite to the second reckoning from the top downwards. It was discovered by a man named Clark while pearl fishing at Roebourne, the owner being a man called Shiner Kelly. The pearl was discovered in 1874, and has changed hands many times. Its value is said to be £10,000.
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