COLONIAL EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 587, 19 March 1851, Page 2

COLONIAL EXTRACTS.

H. M.S. “Havannah.” —This vesseld war left the harbour on Saturday l 3g , fj Port Davey, having his Excellency the Lies. tenant-Governor and suite on board, anil Major-General Wynyard and suite. Afe| landing Sir William Denison, the /Zamaull will proceed to New Zealand, but will retural to Hobart Town in the first week of May.i During the stay of the Havannah here ontb>| present occasion, the officers and crew han! gained golden opinions from all classes of so-| ciety, and their departure is much regretld —Hobart Town Britannia, Feb. 24. j Dr. Leichardt.—-The SouM Jt/s/ra/iii states that Col. Butterworth, the the Island of Singapore, which belongs to th] East India Company, and the Governor-Gt-neral of India, had adopted the most actin means for instituting a search after Dr, Leichardt and his party. Instructions lid been forwarded to the beche-le-mer fishermen along the coast of North Australia, in the neighbourhood of Port Essington, and toibe officers administering the governments o! ibe Islands of Timor and the Moluccas. %nc'h active exertions in the cause of humanity are highly to be commended. A Board of Missions, in connexion will the Sydney Board, has been established al Melbourne.

The Presbyterian Ministers of Van Diemen’s Land have petitioned the House«’ Commons for the discontinuance of transportation. In the rejoicing week, one man was hanged for murder at Hobart Town, and two fe highway robbery and one for stabbing, I Launceston. ri; A card, to be issued to members ol Australian League, has been tastefully et-H graved by Mr. Ham, of Melbourne. Tag centre, formed by a circle of boughs, female figures, representing the five coloowM of New South Wales, Victoria, Van Di-H men’s Land, South Australia, and New land. Four of the figures are erect, Victoria is extending her hand toraiselrf oppressed sister Tasmania. In the bafifiSg ground is a representation of Swan A small female figure at the foot of appears to be suffering ftom a wound by the serpent Transportation, which trudes its head from the tree just above That portion of the circle which overbatf« Swan River, is appropriately represented the foliage of the weeping willow. o n 'iHl reverse side of the card is printed the and solemn engagement. fe? The South Australian, in alluding to received of several bloody atrocities conll ’ i f|S ted on the blacks, says—“ Near Guichei) ‘B| were found the burnt bones of naen, and children, indiscriminately massacred' York Peninsula, almost in sight of blacks have been shot in cold blood; ‘Jug now we find it ascertained that the cannot cross in safety some runs in the Lincoln district. r "