AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2153, 19 January 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

ALBANY, January 18. P- and O- Mail SteamerArrived, in King George’s Sound, the P. and O. Company’s steamship Pohilla, with the inward Suez mail, dated London,' December 1. MELBOURNE, January 18. Arrived—Arawata, from the Bluff. PrizesThe following exhibition awards are announced : Second prizes : William Forster, Christchurch, for life-saving vest; Lytloltoa Harbor Board, for model of Lyttelton harbor, showing works and improvements; Thomas Thomson, Bluff, for model of ships’ compasses and anchors, &e., and piers; Eliot Warhnrton, of Palmerston North, for canvas boat. Third prizes, John Blackett, Wellington, for lighthouse chart; Thomas George, Dunedin, for plans and soundings of Otago harbor; Thomas Hargreaves, Nelson, for model of wave power engine; Captain Holliday, Wellington, for plan of Wellington harbor ; G. H. Luxford, Wellington, model of Maori canoe; William M’Lennon, Dunedin, working model of boat with propollor; John Waymonth, Auckland, for models of yachts. MELBOURNE, January 19. Prizes-

The following Exhibition awards are announced to-day: Third prizes— Thomas J. Harbute, for brnshwaro ; Michael Sullivan, of Dunedin, for baskets. Fifth prizes—Professor Parker, Otago Museum, for specimen of sea crayfish, prepared in spirits; als» fifth prize to A. Mervin, Dunedin.

SYDNEY, January 18. Arrived—Wakatipu, from Wellington. Sailed —Hero, for Auckland, last night. High. Dividend-

The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney has declared a dividend for the half year at the rate of 25 per cent, per annum. The Conference. The Intercolonial Conference to-day adopted resolutions that a request should he sent to the Imperial authorities that the number of vessels of the navy in Australian waters should be increased. The resolution of the Hon. W. Morgan, Chief Secretary of South Australia, in favor of a uniform tariff for the colonies, based on that of New South Wales, was brought forward, but on the motion of Mr Berry its discussion was adjourned until the rest of the programme is disposed of. The scheme for the regulation of Chinese immigration proposed by the Western Australian delegates also occupied the attention of the conference, but no definite resolution on the subject was adopted.