AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE, March 22. The Exhibition Awards. The ceremony arranged for the official declaration of the awards took place at
the HxM&fion:: building to-day. The day was a public' holiday, and there was a j parage of. volunteers. Crowds of people I were in tho streets, and 20,000 persons ! -visited tho Exhibition. The weather was very hot. The address of the Commisaioners announced that 6&41 awards in. ■aH had been made, exclusive of 581 honorable mentions. New Zealand holds a good position in the lists, with 341 awards, which were formally received by Mr. John Blackwood on behalf of exhibitors from that colony. The wholo ceremony passed off with eclat.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2207, 23 March 1881, Page 2
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