THE WARATAH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 481, 16 September 1909, Page 3

THE WARATAH.

Melbourne, September 15. The manager of the Lund Company is very hopeful that the steamer Port Caroline, which was due at Adelaide on Friday last, and has not arrived, has picked up the Waratah.

A friend in Tasmania, writing to Mr J. A. Walsh, of Pahiatua, sends along portion of a letter he has just received from Jack Calder (a Tasmanian champion axeman) who, with his mate, Alf. Clark, is under an engagement to give exhibitions of chopping iu London. The letter was written on board the Waratah at Durban the day helore she left for London, and in view of the recent events, much melancholy interest is attached to it. “You will be surprised to hear of me being this far away from Tasmania, and still going, to pull up, I hope in the greatest city in the world, London. I have with me for a mate, champion axeman, Alf. Clark. We are under an engagement to give exhibitions of chopping. We are taking Australian logs with us. We sailed by the s.s. Waratah, Lund’s Blue Anchor Line. She is 10,000 tons. We left Melbourne on July Ist, had a few days in Adelaide, and set out for Africa on the 7th. We had only one really rough day, and that was coming through the Great Australian Bight and around Cape Leeuwin. But the Waratah being such a grand sea boat, we did not feel it much. I was never a bit seasick and feel better than ever I did in my life. With kind regards to self and all Australian friends. —Yours as B 4, Jack Calder.’’