INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 63, 15 March 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, Monday. The following additional Exhibition awards have be«n made public t — lfirat Order of Alorit i Waddell, McLeod, and Weir, Wellington, for hall doors j Austin) ftirk, & Co , o,nrißtehwren, for pottery ; Oaraaru Stone Company, for stone ; C. H. Banks, Chriatchurcb.and W. and C. Moir, Soutbbrook, Canterbury, for pearl barley. Second Order of Meric : Guthrie and Larnach Company, Duoedin, for hall door ; Halley and Ewing, Wellington, for door ; Stewgrt & Co., Wellington, for mantelshelf and"door ; Ford and Ogden, Malrern Hill*; Canterbury, for drain pipes ; Georgs Morburj, Wsllington, for drain pipes ; John',C. Eftis, Merirale, Southlaud, for stone ; Edward Macaffery, Queenstown, for «ton« ; Oharlen O'Niel, Wellington, for flagging ; Flsmiog, Gray, & Co., Invercargill, and W. Irvine & Co., Palmerston, Otago, for oatmeal ; Greig and Hunter, Christchurch, for atone. Third Order of Merit : Port Chalmers Quarrying Company, for blue Btone. Honorable Mention: William Wilson, for atone. The official declaration of the awards will bo made on the 22nd instant. The day will be a public holiday, and there will be a paiade of troops, and the whole proceedings trill be of a formal character. Stdnet, Monday. Arrived Te Anau from Wellington, and City of Sydney from San Francisco via Auckland. Mp William Foster, late Agent-General for New South Wales in London, returned here to-day per P and O steamer Bokhara. He met with a warm reception, and was presented by a committee with a congratulatory address. Adelaide, Tuesday. The necessary preliminary arrangements for holding an International Exhibition in this city have now been completed. Mr MO'gan, the .Premier, has modified his manifesto of last month. He now proposes to defer the intended reduction of duties, except those on agricultural implements.