AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3810, 15 March 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, Yesterday. The following additional Exhibition awards have been made public:—First order of merit—Waddell, McLeod, and Weir, Wellington, for hall doors; Austin, Kirk and Co., Christchurch, for pottery; Oamaru Stone Co., for stone; E. H. Banks, Christchurch, and W. and C. Moir, Southbropk, Canterbury, for pearl barley. Second order of merit —Guthrie and Larnach's Co., Dunedin, for hall doors; Halley and Ewing, Wellington, for door; Steward and Co., Wellington, for mantelshelf and door; Ford and Ogden, Malvern Hills, Canterbury, for drain pipes, &c.; George Norbury, Wellington, for drain pipes; John E. Ellis, Merivale, Southland, for stone ; Edward McCaffrey, Queensfcown, for stone ; Chas. O'Neill, Wellington, for flagging ; Fleming, Gray and Co., Invercargill, and W. Irvine and Co., Palnierston, Otago, for oatmeal; W. D. Wood, Christchurch, for omolina; Greig and Hunter, Christchurch, for stone. Third order of merit—Port Chalmers Quarrying Co., for blue stone. Honorable mention—William JNelson, Christchurch, for stone. The official declaration of the awards will be made on the 22nd inst. The day will be a public holiday, there will be a parade of troops, and the whole proceedings will be of a formal character: Adelaide, This day. The necessary preliminary arrangements for holding an International; exhibition in this city ha?e now been, concluded. -' Mr Morgan, Premier, has modified, his j manifesto of last month He now proposes to defer the consideration of the intended reduction of duties, except those on agricultural implements.