AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyiuoht.] (Per Press Association.) DUTCH DESERTERS. Received November 6, at 0.13 a.m. Adelaide, November 4. It is estimated the Dutch .fleet loft behind here 150- deserters. ■ -LOWER RATE OF INTEREST. Sydney, • November 4. The Government will reduce tho rate of interest on Government stocks from 3J to 3} per centum as from November Ist. i RURAL WORKERS AND ARBITRATION. Sydney, November 4. A certificate of registration has been granted under the Commonwealth Arbitration Bill to the Rural Workers of Australia, as connected with the agricultural, fruit-growing, and dairying industries. ELECTRICAL DISTUKBANCES. Received November 4', at 10.10 p.m. Sydney, November 4. Thunderstorms are greatly interrupting telegraphic communication in. the southern States. LADY DISAPPEARS. Sythioy, Novoiubor 5. Mucli interest is evoked by tho disappearance last Tuesday of Misß Gibson, daughter of a wealthy Mosmau resident, who wandered from Manly, where sho was staying with a sister,. A balloonist is going up to-day to bcsiii tho surrounding country, and hundreds of men aro organising search parties.

RAIN AND DUST. Received November 6, at 9.55 a.m. Sydney, November 5. Remarkable weather was experienced at Broken Hill during a storm. Half an inch of rain fell in ten minutes, and this was followed by a' thick dust storm, then another torrential downpour and a second blinding dust storm. SHOOTING AFFRAY. Sydney, November 6. A serious shooting affray occurred at Balyney. Two men and a woman driving in a sulky wero overtaken by another sulky driven by Wheeler, who fired three shots with a rifle at the occupants of the first vehicle. lho woman was wounded in tho arm and one man seriously injured by a bullet in tho body. Tho other escaped injury. Wheeler then placed tho woman in his own sulky and drove off. Ho was subsequently arrested. It is supposed that tho action was duo to jealousy. . , DIED OF THIRST. Adelaide, November" 5. The bodies of two swaggers, Schwarz and M'Phce', liavo been found in tho Northern Territory. They died of thirst. M'Pheo's body had been oaten by wild-'dogs.. "■,..