AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press association.] DESERTING DUTCHMEN

ADELAIDE, Nov. 4. It is estimated that the Dutch fleet left behind 150 deserters in Adelaide.

INTEREST REDUCED

SYDNEY, Nov. 4. The Government will reduce the rate of interest on Government stocks from 3| to 3^ per cent, as from November Ist.

RURAL WORKERS.

SYDNEY, Nov. 4. A certificate of registration has been granted under the Commonwealth Arbitration Bill to the Rural Workers' Union of Australia as connected with the agricultural, viticultural, fruit-growing, and dairying industries.