INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 16, 19 January 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

: Mb_botj_nb, Tuesday. Arrived— Arawata, from the Bluff. i The following. Exhibition awards are announced : — , Second prizes : William Fdrster, Christ-! church, for a life-saving vest ; Lyttelton Harbor Board, for model of Lyttelton Harbor showing the works aud improves ment» ; Thomas Thompson, of the Bluff, for models of ships compasses, anchors, &c. ; Elliot Warburton, of Palmerston North, for canvas boat. Third prizes : John Blackett. Wellington; for lighthouse chart ; Thomas George, Dunedin, for plans and soundings of <>tago Harbor; Thomas Hargreaves, Nelson, modol of wave-power engine ; Captain Holliday, Wellington, for plan of Wellington Harbor ; G. H. Luxford, Wellington, model of Maori Canoe ; William McLennan, Dunedin, working model of boat with propeller ; John Wigmouth, Auckland, for models of yachts. Sydney, Tuesday. . Arrived — Wakatipu from Wellington; Sailed— Hero for Auckland, last night. '■ The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney has declared a dividend for the half year at the rate of 25 per cent per annum. The Intercolonial Conference to-day adopt ted resolutions that a request should be sent to the Imperial authorities that the number of the vessels of the navy in the Australian waters should be increased. The resolution of .the Hon. Mr Morgan, Chief Secretary of South Australia, in favor of an uniform tariff for the colonies based on that of New South Wales was brought forward, but at the instance 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 Australia delegates, also occupied the attention ©f the Conference, but no definite resolution on the subject was adopted. Albany, Tuesday. Arrived in King George's Sound— P. and O. Company's steamship Pohilla, with the inward Suez mail dated London, December 17. ;