COODBYE WARATAHI

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12945, 9 December 1909, Page 4

COODBYE WARATAHI

Ti:f f;-archino- sterner Sabine has returned from her search lor the m.^in| Waratah, a wurch * Wch ,£°™ th 5 ,?« was but a forlorn hope. With but little effort of the imagination we can picture to oursMv.s that lonely quest, the Sabine for three months tacking and zigzagging across the wild waste of water which, stretches from the Cape of Good Hope to the South Polar region. For three months no sign, and nothing beyond an occasional sail to break the empty line of the horizon. What the Waratah'6 fate was wi 1 probably never be known. All that we can with certainty guess is that she and her company have been added to _the heavy toll which the sea demands from those wKo brave its perils— "their passing bell, the tempest; their requiem, the wave!" R.I.P.