INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 85, 9 April 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, Thursday. There is a moderate business doing m oats. It is understood that a large business ia expected to be done in Mauritius sugsr. Arrived — Union Company's steamer Te . Anau, from New Zealand. Sugars are firm and appear to have touched the lowest prices. Sydney, "Wednesday. The following Exhibition awards are announced :— Furniture— Leaforth of Auckland, specially commended; first class; Carl

Itatti 61 Weiiiagtdu, MUm sad ToWfiley of Natfierj second dlassi Gathrie and Larnaeh of Dunedin, and Nicholson of Wellington; third class: Burt of Dunedin. He also received first- class awards. Gasaliers— Peterson of Christchurch (special.) Silver Jug,— Myers of Wellington; Hall-Doors — Gathrie and Larnaeh of Dunedin. Second Class awards — Greenfield and Stewart, of Wellington, for Mantelshelf; Halley, Ewirig, and Stewart, all of Wellington, for Doors; Sandstean, of Christchurch, for Epergne. Third Class awards: Scott for Stones; Child and White, Christchurch, for Cone work. Friday. The steamship Wakatipu has arrived. Seven stowaways were found aboard after her departure from Wellington. In the Legislative Council last night a , letter was read from the Hon W. B. Dally tendering his resignation. An anti-Chinese meeting was held last night, at which a petition to Parliament was adopted, praying for the immediate passage through the Legislature of an Act of one clause requiring the steamer Brisbane, now quarantined here with 215 Chinese and with some cases of small pox on board, to ! depart immediately without discharging, under a penalty of £20,000. Brisbane, Friday. A Commission has been appointed to inquire into the cause of the heavy mortality which has taken place among the Kanakas on a plantation near Maryborough.