HEARTLESS HOAXES.
MESSAGES FROM THE WABAIAfi. SYDNEY, February 5. A bottle has been picked up on Newport Beach, near Broken Bay, containing an ill-spelled, clumsily scrawled message, alleged to have been written by a man on the Waratah, announcing that the vessel was slowly drifting south to Victoria Land, and had lost her rudder and propeller. The police authorities give no credence to the message. MELBOURNE, February 5. A bottle has been picked up on the beach near Sale, containing a message alleged to have been thrown overboard while the Waratah was sinking fast in latitude 48 east, longitude 13U degree south. The message is signed Millbume. No such passenger's name appears in the list of the Waratah's passengers. There was a W. Millburne on board, but he landed at Durban.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 32, 7 February 1910, Page 5
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