WHAT A FARMER SAW.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 23 September 1909, Page 1

WHAT A FARMER SAW.

J. <5Ti:A"jZi-U !-*•' i:*i -Si" .'A '■■'■'■-'. A SUDDEX DWAI'PEAiUXC-'. The fate of the steamship Waratah which left Durban on Monday, Jul. 26, bound for Capetown, is still cii shrouded in inexplicable mystery Rumours arc still rife, aud theories are still set up to account for he; whereabouts or fate, but beyond ru mours and theories not a vestige oi evidence has been found to lenc credence to the theories, while the xumours have, each in. turn, boer proved to have emanated from imaginary sources. A story, .'however, was told in East London, which, while it differs in one or two essentials from the facts as already published (says the "East London Dispatch"), is yet entitled to a certain i mount of credence. Mr Edward Joseph Bret, a partner in the firm ••if Messrs Beet Bros., farmers and cncral dealers, carrying on business it the farm, Fort C-Jrey, in the dis- . i'iet of" East London, came into town and made a statement to Messrs Mitchell, Cotts, and Co.'s representative (the local agent of Lund's " Blue Anchor Line), which led the latter to proceed with Mr Beet to the police station, where Mr Beet made an affidavit as to what ho declares he saw oil* the coast on Monday night, July 26th.