WARATAH MESSAGES.
SUPPOSED TO BE FORGERIES
(By Electbic Telegraph—Copyright.) 'Per Press Association.) Received Fob. 5, 11.15 a.m.
SYDNEY, Feb. 5.
A bottle picked up on the Newport beach, near Broken Bay, containing ctn ill-epolled, clumsily-scrawled message alleged to be written by a man on the Waratah, and announcing that the vessel was slowly drifting south to Victoria Land and had lost her rudder and propellor. The police authorities doubt the bona-fides of tho message.
MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. A bottle was also picked up on the beach near Sale containing a message said to have been thrown overboard while the Waratah was sinking fast in latitude 48 cast, longitude 130 degrees south. It was signed "J. Millburne." There is no such passenger's name on the list. There was a W. Millburne on board, but he landed at Durban.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9134, 5 February 1910, Page 5
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