MELBOURNE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3026, 8 March 1881, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

March 7

An enquiry has been ordered by the Government into the circumstances attending the disaster to the boat's crew of the Cerberus.

March 8

The following further Exhibition awards are announced :—First order of merit: Kitchen and Sons, Wellington, and McLeod Brothers, Dunedin, for candles ; E. H. Banks, Christchurch, and P. Cunnigham and Co., Christchurch, for peas and beans. Second order of merit: J. B. Bernasconi, Wellington, for inlaid table of New Zealand woods; Guthrie and Lanarch's Company, Dunedin, for fall door and frame of New Zealand woods ; George King and Co., Christchurch, for beans ; B. H. Banks, Christchurch, for peas. Third order of merit: D. Wilkinson, Thames for specimens of printing; Robert Burrett, Wellington, and Government Printer, Wellington for specimens of bookbinding; proprietors Times, Christchurch, for specimens of engraving; Fergusson and Mitchell, Dunedin, for account books; Robert Burrett, Wellington, for engraving. Fifth order of merit : Nicholson, Wellington, for sideboard of New Zealand woods ; Patterson, Burke and Co., Dunedin, for Venetian blinds; Austin, Kirk and Co., Christchurch, for pottery. Honorable mentions :| W. J. Groyling, Taranaki, for tanning, dying, and medical extracts ; F. Dennett, Thames, for specimens of Hematite ; E K. Edwards, Thames, for paints and minerals. The barque India, bound from London to Port Pirie (South Australia), has been wrecked at Cape (sic). All lives have been saved.

The following additional awards are published:—Fourth order of merit: Large and Townley, Napier, for worktable inlaid with New Zealand woods; Mrs Maxwell, Fern Hill, Wellington, for curtains of New Zealand ferns in ink ; T. Myers, Wellington, for picture frames.