EXHIBITION AWARDS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2486, 9 March 1881, Page 2

EXHIBITION AWARDS.

SECOND EDITION

[By Cable.] Melbourne, March 8. The following further exhibition awards are anounced ;—First order of merit—Kitchen and Sons, Wellington, and M’Leod Bros, Dunedin, for candles ; E. H. Banks and P, Cunningham and Co., Christchurch, for peas and beans. Second order of merit—G. Bernasconi, Wellington, for inlaid table of New Zealand woods ; Guthrie and Larnach’s Company, Dunedin, for hall door and frame of New Zealand woods ; George King and Co., Christchurch, for beans ; E. H. Banks, Christchurch, for peas. Third order of merit—W. Wilkinson, Thames for specimens of printing; Robert Burrett, Wellington, and Government Printer, Wellington, for specimens of book-binding; Proprietors of “Lyttelton Times,’’ Christchurch, for specimens of engraving ; Ferguson and Mitchell, Dunedin, for account books ; R. Burrett, Wellington, for engraving. Fourth order of merit Lange and Townley, Napier, for work table inlaid with New Zealand woods; Mrs Maxwell, Fernhill, Wellington, for curtains with New Zealand ferns in ink ; T. Myers, Wellington, for picture-frames. Fifth order of merit—W. Nicholson, Wellington, for sideboard of New Zealand woods ; Paterson Burke and Go., Dunedin, for Venetian blinds ; Austin, Kirk and Co,, Limited, Christchurch, for pottery. Honourable mentions—W. I. Grayling, Taranaki, for tanning, dyeing, and medical extracts ; T. Bennett, Thames, specimens of hematite; E. R. Edwards, for painls and minerals. The following additional awards are published First order of merit— Professor von Haast, Christchurch, for ethnological colleclion ; Dr Hector, for geological specimens ; Bank of New Zealand, for gold specimens ; Brunner Coal Company, Coal Pit Heath Company, Greymouth Company, Kaitangata Company;, and Westport Colliery, for coal ; Wilson, for sulphur. Second order of merit—Bay of Islands Coal Company, for coal. Third order of merit—J. R. Hackett, Nelson, for chrome ores ; Ingram and White, Oxford West, Canterbury, for chalk ; Johnston Brothers, Nelson, for ores ; D. McFarlane, Jackson’s Bay, for copper ore. Fourth order of merit—W. Wilkinson, of the Thames, for printing ; Capper, Wellington, for table of New Zealand woods ; J. A; M'llwraith, Home Bush, Malvern Hills, Canterbury,for fireclay ; Roding River Copper Company, Nelson, for copper and chrome ores; Colonial Museum, Wellington, for ores. Fifth order of merit—Edwards and Green, Wellington, for printing.

Further awards to New Zealand exhibitors are announced as follows : Second order of merit—Waddell. M’Lcod and Weir, Wellington, for hall doors. Third order of merit—George Fleming, Nelson, for tables and boxes inlaid with New Zealand woods—Fourth order of merit ; Alexander Simpson, Waikiwi, Southland, for bagpipes of Native material ; F. W. Irvine, Maungatapu, Nelson, for chrome iron ore.—Fifth order of merit—Thomas Condliffe, Malvern Hills, Canterbury, for terracotta work.