THE STEAMER WAIKATO.
123 DAYS OUT.
The steamer Waikato is now 123 days out on the voyage from London to Port Chalmers, and it is 35 days since she was sppken near_the Cape by the barquentine Tacora.
H.M.s. Melpomene, which is understood to be cruising off the South Africa coast in search of the disabled steamer, has not been heard from yet. The Melpomene proceeded from Mauritius upon her ocean search, and she would probably work down to the latitude last assigned to the Waikato, namely, 39 rleg. S., before returning to report. This means as wide a search as from Sydney to the Bluff, and in seas equally stormy, so tha.t the search cannot be made in a few days. When the English mail by the Orotava closed on July 23, the reinsurance rate of premium upon the Waikato had advanced to 50 guineas per cent. This was just three days prior to the vessel being spoken, with her shaft broken, by the barquentine Tacora.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day,
The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advice that the s.s. Waikato had six months provisions, and two tons of fresh meat.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 209, 4 September 1899, Page 3
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