MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2974, 6 January 1881, Page 3

MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

(By Cable.)

Melbourne, January 5. The number of exhibition awards made is 2103. The following belong to New Zealand: —

First Prizes. — Four pieces Kauri timber, Hokianga Saw Mill Company. Second Prizes.—Specimens of Australian and New Zealand timber showing the action of the teredo navals and specimens of jarrah and totara timber, Auckland Harbor Board ; collection of timbers showing the results of experiments for determining their strength, Colonial Museum, Wellington; large collection of timbers of Canterbury and Westland, Professor Yon Haast, Canterbury Museum; eight specimens of native ornamental woods, F. Halcombe Wellington ; two planks of rimu polished, John Hornby, Mount Pleasant Mills, Picton; fine specimens of Kauri timber, New Zealand Commissioners, Wellington

Third Prizes.—Thirty-one samples of, polished and named timbers grown in New Zealand, chiefly in the neighborhood of Dunedin, Robert Guthrie, Dunedin ; specimens of large kauri timber grown in New Zealand, G. Holdship, Auckland; sixteen varieties of ornamental timber from New Zealand forests, William Norrie, cabinetmaker, Auckland; specimens of native timber of Otago, a

portiou being of totara log, worked with stone adzes, Otago Museum, Dunedin; specimens of Southland timber, R. and A Tapper, Invercargill; Taranaki iron sand in its various stages of manufacture, E. M. Smith, New Plymouth. .

Fourth Prizes. —Sample of board of Kahekitea, Bagnel Bros, and Co., Thames; polished and framed samples of New Zealand woods, W. N. Blair, Engineer-in-Chief, South Island, Dunedin ; slabs of kauri pine, Dr. Logan Campbell, Auckland, and Mr Cuming, Hokitika ; block oftotara wood suitable for veneering cabinet work, John George Denne, Nelson ; plank of yellow pine timber, John Fletcher, Pahakawa, Collingwood, Nelson; specimen of New Zealand woods polished on face and rough at back, J. C. George, Taranaki; specimens of timber from Westland, Hokitika Local Committee, Hokitika; samples of birch and totara, J. W. Robertson and Co., Queenstown, Otago : veneers of colonial woods, Robert Stone, Thames; twenty specimens of New Zealand timber and bark for tanning, Wilding and Bull, Waipukurau, Napier. Fifth Prizes. —Section of stump of flowering fuschia tree 66 feet in circumference. John Beckenham, Nelson; rough piece of kauri timber showing the natural formation of kauri gum, Edward Isaacs, Eden Crescent, Auckland, and M'Connell Hokitika.