AUSTRALIA.

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AUSTRALIA.

[EEUTEE'S TELEGEAM3.] MELBOURNE, February 3. Prizes. The following further Exhibition awards are published:—Second prizes, Chamber of Commerce, Oamarn, for photographs of Oamarn; N. K. Cherrill, Christchnrch; Clifford and Morris, Dunedin; and J. J. Taylor, Motueka, Nelson, for photographs. Third prizes— J. Bragge, of Wellington; W. B. Gibbs, Wellington; and Burton, of Dunedin, for photographs. First prize, 0. A. Palmer, Waimea West, Nelson, for hops. Second prizes—W. Cuddon, Christchurch, for malt; Thomas Harley, Nelson, for hops and malt; S. Manning and Company, Christchnrch, for malt and barley; Ward and Company, Christchurch, for malt. Third prizes—W. Cndden, Christchurch, for malt; P. Cunningham and Company, Christchurch, for malt, '"""i Railway Extension. Tha railway between Gerogery and Albany, New South Wales, wsa opened to-day, and communication, between

.Melbourna,-.and, Sydney...is— now- comI>lotnd. The opening ccrotaony ww performed by ■; the Hon. John Lackey,, the New South Wales Minister for Public Works, who formally declared the line open, and delivered a congratulatory address, in the course of which he espatiatod upon the benefits to be derived by the of communication be-; tweeh Melbourne and Sydney. The Hon, Graham Berry, Hon. J. B. Patterson, Sir Henry Parkes, and Sir Patrick Jennings were present, together with an assemblage of fully 2000 persons. The whole proceedings passed off with great eclat, and were followed by a luncheon. A grand bait and sapper to-night will conclude the festivities. Shipping. Arrived—Albion, from the Bluff;. SYDNEY, February 3. Arrests. Two men have been arrested at Eanabalong charged with the murder of James Omak in 1876. Shipping. Sailed-—Bingarooma, for Auckland.