THE WARATAH

Otago Witness, Issue 2921, 9 March 1910, Page 24

THE WARATAH

MELBOURNE, March 2

The captain of the steamer Pericles, from South Africa, interviewed the captains and agents of a number of sealing vessels who came recently from the Marion and Kerguelen Islands. Be ascertained that the men who reported seeing a steamer near Marion Island were not sure whether she had two funnels, nor what course she was steering. She was nine miles away at the time of sighting her, and appeared to be a vessel of a thousand tons.

March 4

An officer of the Lund line states that there is nothing to signify that the cushion belonged to the Waratah. If any of the vessel's cushions were marked it would be with the name in full. It might of course happen if " W " was worked on the cushion that it was a present, to an officer.

LONDON, March 3

Reuter's Capetown correspondent states that a quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore at intervals in the neighbourhood- of Morsel Bay, on the south coast of Cape Colony. A most significant object is a cushion marked "W." • A hatchway which "also came ashore has beer sent to the Waratah builders with a view to identification.

March 4

Lund's Steamship Company does not place any credence in the reported Waratah wreckage, since their Capetown agents had riot notified them, and it had been arranged that they should do so should any evidence of the Waratah be discovered.