No Tidings of the Waratah

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4448, 12 August 1909, Page 2

No Tidings of the Waratah

London, August 10. The Pandora has returued to Durban from her search for the Waratah without finding any trace of the missing liner. An engineering expert who travelled from Australia to Durban by the Waratah, praises the steamer and machinery, and declares that a bunker of coal assured a maximum of steadiness. It is stated that a passenger named Sawyer broke his journey at Durban under a presentiment of danger. The cruiser ILermes is due at Capetown to-morrew. and will join in the search for the Warfitah. The owners calculate that if the disabled steamer has drifted towards Cape Agulhas (the most southern point of Africa), she will then be carried with the current east.. The Admiralty has ordered warships to search in accordance with this theory.

The reported sighting of a Blue Anchor steamer at Durban is unconfirmed. It is noted that the windis blowing shorewards. This the theory that the Waratah has been carried very far to eastward. Lunds has ordered their steamer which is just arriving at the Cape to search for the Waratah. The Pan-' dora’s search covered 250 square miles, and the captain believes that if afloat the Waratah must be seen by the cruiser Forte.