AUSTRALIA.
[Reuter’s Agency.] Bad for Depositors. Melbourne, Feb. 3. —The Banks have reduced the rate of interest on deposits for three months to three per cent, for six months to four, and for twelve months terfive per cent. The dissolution of Parliament takes place positively to-day. An Explorer’s Fate. ■ Sydney, Feb. 3. —Strong confirmation lias been received as to the truth of Hume’s story about Glasson having survived some time in Central Australia. He has been dead some years, but it is believed that there are half-castes in East Central Australia who speak German. The blacks describe the person supposed' to be Classon, the explorer, as feeble and decrepit. On hearing of the vicinity of squatters, he begged to be taken thither. The blacks refused. He stole out of camp at night and was missed in the morning. They tracked him and found him dead.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2144, 4 February 1880, Page 3
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145AUSTRALIA. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2144, 4 February 1880, Page 3
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