["The Waratah", The Argus (Melbourne), Friday 31 December 1909, page 5]
THE WARATAH.
LONDON EXPERTS PESSIMISTIC.
AGENT-GENERAL'S INQUIRIES.
LONDON, Dec. 30.
Acting on instructions from his Government, Sir John Taverner, Agent General for Australia, is negotiating for the services of a steamer to proceed to the Crozet Islands in search of the missing Lund liner Waratah. He finds that the general opinion of experts is that further search is hopeless. They declare that if the the Waratah were afloat she would have drifted to Australia by now.
