AUSTRALIAN.
(Reutee's Telegrams.)
MELBOURNE
March 22
The ceremony arranged for the official declaration of the awards took place at the Exhibition building today. The day was a public holiday, and there was a parade of volunteers. Crowds of people were in the streets, and 20,000 persons visited the Exhibition. The weather was very hot. The address of the Commissioners announced that 6941 awards in all had been made, exclusive of- 581 honorable mentions. New Zealand holds a good position in the list with 341 awards, which were formally received by Mr John Blackwood on behalf of the exhibitors from the colony. The whole ceremony passed off with eclat. March 23. The Age to-day states that the Government intend to support a bill which will shortly be introduced in Parliament to exclude Chinese from voting at elections.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3039, 23 March 1881, Page 3
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