INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5, 6 January 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melboure, Wednesday. The wool exhibits &c, at the International Exhibition were opened to-day. They were of excellent quality but scarcely sufficiently representative ; only a few exhibits are from New Zealand. Mauritius advices state that the sugar engagements for Lyttelton amount to 450 tona. There have been 2103 Exhibition awards made,' the following being to New Zealand* — First prize,.; four pieces of kauri timber, Hokianga Saw Mill Company. Second prizes— Specimena of Australian and New Zealand timber showing the action .of the Teredo Naval is, and specimens of Jar rah and Totara 1 timber, Aupklohd Harbor Board ; Collection of timber 'showing results of experiments for determining strength,Colonial Museum, Wellington ; Large collection of timbers of Canterbury and Westlaud, Professor Julius Von Haa«t, Canterbury Museum; Eight specimens native ornamental woods, Mr Halcombe, Fielding ; Two planks rimu polished, Jobn Hornby, of Mount Pleasant iuillß, Picton ; Specimen kauri timber, N. Z. Commissioners. Third prizes— Thirty-one samples polished and named timbers. grown in New Zealand, chiefly in the neighborhood of Dunerlin, Robert . Guthrie', Dunedin ; Specimens of large kauri timber grown in .New Zealand, G. Holdship, Auckland ; Sixteen varieties ornamented timber from timber from New Zealand forests, Norrie, 1 Auckland ; Specimens of native timber of Otago, portion of to.tara log worked with' stone adzes from a Maori fish weir in the Shag River, Otago Mußeum, Dunedin ; Specimens of Southland timber, R. and A. Tapper, Invercargill, also Smith of Taranaki. Fourth prizes — Sample of board of Kahikates, BagnaU Bros.,Thamea ; Polished and framed samples of New; Zealand woodi, Mr Blair> Engineer-in- Chief of the South Island ; Two slabs kauri pine from Dunedin, Logan, Auckland, also Cunningham, Hokitika ; Black totara wood, J. D«nne, Nelson ; Plank' bf yelibw .'pine, Fletcher, Pakawau, 1 Collingwood, Nelson ; specimens New Zea land, George, Taranaki ;. Specimens of limher from Westland, Hokitika Local Committee; Sample' of birch and totara, Robertson, Queenstown; Otago • Veneeraof colonial woods, Stone, Thames ,; Twenty, specimens Ndw Zealand timber and bark for ; tanning, : Wilding arid Ba-11, Waipukurau, Napier.;., . .. : Fifth prizes— Section of stump of flowering fuchsia tree 65 feet in circumference, John Beckenbam,: Nelson ;' Rough piece of kauri timber, Edward Isaacs, Auckland, also McConnon, Hokitika, 10.30 p.m. At the wool show the qualities exhibited are unsurpassed and experts find it difficult to determine which are the best. „ . Thursday. . The footballers here are organising a team' to leave for England in May. Ib will include five New Zealanders.