["The Missing Waratah", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Tuesday 24 May 1910, page 6]
THE MISSING WARATAH.
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.
A HOAX SUSPECTED.
A telegram was recently received at the City Watchhouse from Mounted-Constable Keating stating that a bottle had been washed ashore some distance from Streaky Bay containing a document referring to the missing Waratah. The message reads as follows:--
"August 18th, '09.
Waratah sinking rapidly, west coast of Africa. Steamer on fire.
(Signed) W. Scott, l8. Elizabeth street, Sydney."
Nothing else was found for seven miles along the beach. The Marine Board have been informed. The police look on the message as a hoax.
