EXHIBITION AWARDS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2142, 6 January 1881, Page 3

EXHIBITION AWARDS.

| REUTER’S TELEGRAM.] MELBOURNE, January 5,

Two thousand one hundred and three exhibition awards have been made. The following belong to New Zealand :—First prize, four pieces of kauri timber, Hokianga Sawmill Company. Second prizes : Specimens of Australian and New Zealand timber, showing the action of the “ teredo navalis,” and specimens of jarrah and totara timbers, Auckland Harbor Board ; collection of timbers showing the results of experiments for determining the strength, Colonial Museum, Wellington ; largo collection of timbers of Canterbury and Westland, Professor Julius Von Haast, Canterbury Museum ; eight specimens of Native ornamental woods, F. Halcome, Feilding, Wellington ; two planks of rimu, polished, John Hornby, Mount Pleasant Mills, Picton; five 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 timbers from New Zealand forests, William Nome, cabinetmaker, Auckland ; specimens of Native timber of Otago, and portion of a totara log worked with stone adzes from the Maori Weir, Firth Shag river, Otsgo Museum, Dunedin; specimens of Southland timbers, R. and A. Tapper, Invercargill; Taranaki iron sand in its various stages of manufacture, E. M. Smith, New Plymouth. Fourth prizes—Sample board of kahikitiea, Bagnell Bros, and Co., Thames ; polished and named samples of New Zealand woods, W. N. Blair, Enginoor-in-Ohief South Island, Dunedin ; two slabs of kauri pine, Dr, Logan Campbell, Auckland, and Cuming, Hokitika ; block of totara wood suitable for veneering cabinet work, John George Denne, Nelson ; plank of yellow pine timber, John Fletcher, Fakawa, Oollingwood, Nelson ; specimens of New Zealand woods, polished on the face, rough at the back, J. C. George, Taranaki; specimens of timber from Westland, Hokitika, and samples of birch and totara, J. W. Robertson and Co., Queenstown, Otago ; veneers and colonial woods, Robert Stone, Thames ; twenty specimens of New Zealand timber and bark for tanning, Wilding and Ball, Waipukurau, Napier. Fifth prizes—Section of tho stump of a flowering fusohia tree 65 inches in circumference, John Beckenham, Nelson; rough piece of kauri timber, showing the natural formation of kauri gum, Edward Isaacs, Eden orescent, Auckland, and McConnell, Hokitika.