INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

' ..MEtriomtNE, Tufslay nijjtiY.-- 1 * The following further awards to New Zealan<J r exhikitorß are announced :~Secoli&--order of merit : Waddell, McLtod, abcl 1 Weir, Wellington, for hall doors. Third order of merit :Geoig"e .Fleming, .Nelson, for tables and boxes inlaid" with New&salano" woods. Fourth order of merit : Alexander Euipson, Waikiwi, .Southland; 'for • b'agpipea .out of /nativb material ; F. W. Irvine, Matin,-, gat a'pti, Nelson, for chrome and iron ore. Fifth order of merit: Thomas CaiidcJinV, Malverni.Hills, Canterbury, for "terra cctta" . work...- ' ■; i ■,:■' -'i..< • .-| The foilpwiog additional. JS^hibitiori Awards are published:— First order of merit—Professor Von Haasf; Christchuixhj . for ethnological collection } Dr fctector for geological Specimens;; 13fank ; of . New/Ze,ajand, for gold specimens; BrunnerCoal Company, Coal'-Prt Heath? Coal ~Cotn pan?, Kaiiangata Coal Company, aud Westport Colliery Com-f-fttiy, for Coal • Mr Wilsonj for sulphur. Second order of nierit~l?dy of Islands Coal Company, for coal. Third order of merit— T. I\. Backet,* Nelson, for chrcme ore ; Ingram and White, Oxford West, Canterbury, for chalk; Johuston Bros., Nelson, for ores; D. Macfarlane, Jackson's Bay, for fopper ore t Fourth order 0f merit— W. Wilkinsorii Thames, for piinfing ; Earl B^kei 1 ,. Wellington, for table of New Zealand woods; J. A. Mclhvraitb, Ho'mebtish Malvern Hills, Canterbury, for fireclay ; Rodiog River Company, Nels'bD, fttr cbpptr and (hromeoies; Colonial Museum, Wellington, for orefl. Fifth order of merit— Edwards aud Green, Wellington, for printing. Sydney, Tuesday. The cricket match between the Australians ani Combined Eleven of New South Wales and Victoria was resumed to day. The Australians were all disposed of for 85 in their second innings, Murdoch, cot out, 31, aud McDonnell, caught, 18, being the top scorers, and the Combined Eleven has therefore won the match by 346 runs. A severe hailstorm fell during the adjournment for luncheon and rendered the ground very dead. : The Executive has decided that the sentence of death passed upon William Brown, a farmer in the Manning district, forj criminally assaulting bis daughter, 12> years of age, shall be carried out. Sailed — Hero for Auckland.