["The Overdue Waratah", The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 04 August 1909, page 9]
THE OVERDUE WARATAH.
CRUISERS IN SEARCH.
LONDON, Aug. 3.
H.M.S. Forte, second-class cruiser, has Simons Town, and H.M.S. Pandora, third-class cruiser, has left Durban, to search for the Lund liner Waratah, now overdue at Capetown on her way from Durbn.
It is probably that the machinery of the Waratah has broken down, and that in recent heavy gales she has drifted southward.
11.5 a.m.
The owners of the Waratah, W. Lund and Sons, are without news of the vessel.
