MISSING WARATAH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 738, 10 February 1910, Page 5

MISSING WARATAH.

;;- ; : ;.■'■ inquiry'delayed.:, ■■ 'rDy Tclctraph-Press Associa'tion-Copyrlzht.' ■■' : V,'-(Rec. Februory'9, -10/.p.'m'.) . : ; ,; -;•;:¥. - -London, .-February 9. -. .The Board -of Trade'.- statce : that the inquiry, in'connebtion with. the . missingWaratah wili not be, held for some time/ The i Board wishes,' that the investigation shall be as/exhaustive, ns possible;'.'and mueli evidence.will have to be obtained in.,Australia r and'South','Africa.- .'■'.'.... ■' Minister/'for Customs,' Sir Roberti Best, has received from'' the Premier; of..New South Wales, .Mr.'W.adei a copy, .of the: , report>furnished , by , , the act-lrig-superintendent'of navigation- on the' condition of: the Wa'ratah' before she loft Sydney..' .The report-reads as 'follows:i,f'» s ; Y«?sel /was ' lying 'at. the.-Central Wharf, Sydney.'Harbour, ■ for some ten' days.-.discharging;inward cargo and loading outward . cargo for.' South. Africa and London.;, During this time she;was seen by the various inspectors of this Depart-' ment. almost daily. . These ■ offioers report that there was ; nothing in the vessel's trim to. show; that she was in any way unstable. : They■state . that she. left the port on June 26 with, a small cargo -on board, in'good, ballast ■trjm, J and : in perfect se'a-going'.oider.;-' She had no- cargo or bunker : coal:oij-an exposed , deck."] :,';