MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2434, 6 January 1881, Page 3

MELBOURNE EXHIBITION AWARDS.

SECOND EDITION

[Ur Cable.] Melbourne, Jan. 5. Two thousand one hundred and three Exhibition awards have been made. The following belong to New Zealand: —Eirst prize—Four pieces kauri timber Hokianga Saw Mills Company. Seconds—Specimens of Australian and New Zealand timber, showing the action of the Teredo navalin, and specimens of jarrah and totara timber —Auckland Harbor Board ; collection of timber showing results of experiments for determining strength—Colonial Museum, Wellington ; large collection of timbers of Canterbury and Westland —Professor Julius Yon Haast Canterbury Museum ; eight specimens of ornamental woods—E. Halcombe, Fielding, Wellington ; two planks of

rimu, polished—John Hornby, Mount Pleasant Mills, Picton ; five specimens of kauri timber —New Zealand Commissioners, Thirds: Thirty-one samples of polished and named timbers grown in New, Zealand, chiefly in the neighborhood of Dunedin —Robert Guthrie, Dunedin ; specimens of large kauri timber grown in New Zealand —G. Holdship, Auckland; sixteen varieties of ornamental timbers of New Zealand forests William Norrie, Cabinetmaker, Auckland ; specimens of native timbers of Otago, and portion ot totara log worked with stone adzes by Maoris of Shag river Otago—Museum, Dunedin; speciments of Southland timbers —R. and A. Tapper, Invercargill. Taranaki ironsand in its various stages of manufacture—E. M. Smith, New Plymouth. Fourths : Sample board of Kahikitea— Bagnall Bros, and Co., Thames ; polished and named samples of New Zealand woods —W. N. Blair, Engineer-in-Clii’et\ South Island, Dunedin; two slabs of kauri pine—Dr Logan Campbell, Auckland, and Canning, Hokitika ; black totara wood suitable for veneering cabinet work —John George Denne, Nelson ; plank of yellow pine timber— John Fletcher, Pakawa, Collingwood, Nelson; specimens of New Zealand woods polished on face rough at buck—J. C. George, Taranaki; specimens of timber from Westland, Hokitika, and samples of birch and totara—J. W. Robertson and Co., Queenstown, Otago ; veneers, colonial woods —Robert Slone, Thames; twenty specimens of New Zealand timber and bark for tanning—Wilding and Ball, Waipukurau, Napier. Fifths: section of stump flowering fuschia tree, 65 inches in circumference John Beckenham, Nelson ; rough piece of kauri timber showing natural formation of kauri gum —Edward Isaacs, Ellen Crescent, Auckland; and McConnell, Hokitika.