AFRICA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 6, 11 August 1909, Page 7

AFRICA.

Missig Lund Liner. The cruisers Forte and Pandora have left Simonstown (Cape Colony) and Durban respectively to search for the Waratah. It is probable that the liner’s machinery broke down during the recent heavy gales, and that she has drifted southward The Lund Line is still without news of the missing steamer Waratah. When the Waratah left Melbourne she had the following passengers: —Mr J. E. Million, Mr S. G. Sawyer, Mr B. Oslear. Mrs Oslear, Mr Wilkinson, Mrs Starke, Miss Starke, Mrs J. W. Wilson, Miss L. Wilson, Mr F. C. Saunders, Mr G. A. Richardson, Mrs and Miss Wilson, Mr J. Ebsworth, Mrs Govett, Miss Lascelles, Mr Neil Blaek, Miss M. Campbell. Mr W. R. Jamieson, Lieutenant-colonel Browne, Miss Lees and maid, Mrs A. B. Woods and child, Misses Hay (2), Mr Morgan, Mrs Cawood, Mr and Mrs E. B. Page, Dr. Fulford. Others joined at Adelaide. Forty-five guineas per cent has been paid to reinsure the missing Lund liner Waratah. Reuter’s Capetown correspondent states that the initial apprehension regarding the Waratah has been relieved by the non-discovery of wreckage. Reports from Durban state that cyclonic weather and mountainous seas have been experienced. A tug sent out in search of the steamer Waratah has returned to Nasselby without discovering any trace of the liner.

The Waratah is insured for £300,000. The rates for reinsurance of the Waratah have been raised to 50 guineas per cent. The wreck of the Maori has deepened apprehension regarding the fate of the Waratah, whose reinsurance has risen to 70 guineas per cent. The Waratah took 300 tons of coal on her bridge-deck, after dischaging cargo at Port Natal. The cruisers sent out to search for the missing steamer have not returned. South African Bill. The House of Lords passed the United South Africa Bill through committee unamended, rejecting several of Lord Courtney’s amendments embodying native claims. The Prince of Wales has provisionally promised to open the first South African Union Parliament. A White Man's Laud. Ex-President Roosevelt, banquctted at Nairobi, in British East Africa, his headquarters on his hunting tour, said that few people realised that under the Equator was a real white man’s land. During his journeys he had seen large tracts of country suitable for settlers, though the coast regions and the far interior were only suitable for blacks under white supervision. He added that the blacks must be treated without brutality and also without sentiment. Sentiment, he continued, would probably be more harmful than brutality.