COLONIAL EXTRACTS.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 123, 16 December 1846, Page 3

COLONIAL EXTRACTS.

Mod art Town Catholic Total An-' stinbncb Socikty.—On Thursday evening lust, Novembers, a meeting was h«ld attho School Room u\ St Joseph's Church, for the purpoir of forming a Total Absiin.' enr-eSociety. The Very Rev. Win. Hall, Vicar-General, took ihe chair, and whs supported on liU right and left by his clergymen. The rev. chairman opened the bu.-ine.<s of th« evening by pointing out tho innumerable vices resulting from intemperance—the variouY benefits arising from total absiiuence—- and concluded a» eloquent address to those assembled by calling upon all present to sign the pledge, and assist him, by every legitimate means, to put a siop to the degrading vice of intemperance. The Rev. Mr. Woolsey then addressed the meeting at great length, and stated that for the last 30 years he drank nothing in the vhape of intoxicating drinks; nor did he the want of tjiem, but on the contrary felt much belter without th-m ; and called up m all who call d th.ems.lyes Chri-tians to sign the piedsre, and hoped that each one who signed would induce a neighbour or friend to come forward eacli meeting night until there wa* not a man r woman, or child in Hobart Town but whose n.me would be enrolled as a total abstainer. About seventy persons signed the pledge, and the meeting adjourned to Monday night.

Colonial Produce—The desire to escourags articles of colonial manufacture is becoming daily more general. The colonial soaj» i s pref- rred to that mad« by even th;« Undi-r Seer t*ry for the colonic*. Mr. Cleburne's (late Kirk's) is infinitely preferable to any klnglish. Tha colon;al tweeds are coming into general use home brewed ale is in req-ip-t— and a new beverage is for sale in t'ds town, an effervescent wine, made from gripes grown in Capt tin Swanstou's vim-yard at NewTown, wheh is for sale at Wa ker's in Davey-<t, ai a most rea?oaaMe rate. There are two kinds, pinkand white, boih equally delicious— * 4 advance rasmania*'

A collision had taken p!are between the steamer Thistle on her p>s*age from the Hunter toSydney.and a small cutter called the Black Swan' by which two lives were lost. We copy the following particulars from the Australian of the 27th October— "The steamer Thistle, Captain Mulhall left Newcastle, on Saturday evening, at 6 o'clock, the 24h October, on her way to Sydney.—When off Bungarie's Nora, about 9 o'clock p.m., was run into by a small cutter the Black Swam. The night was very thick and dark, and the cutter showing* no light prevented her being seen before she came close under her bows, where she carried away the Thistle's bobstay, gib guys, and top-gallant-mast. Hearing a cry for help on board the cutter, lowered o boat which was no sooner In the water than she filled and got stove loosing the oars aud nearly the lives ot two men- Cleared away the starboard boat and sent a second mate and two men, being iheonly oneleft on board, the other two having been knocked overboard, it is supposed by the main boom and drowned. Lay-to for the remainder of the night close 10 tho outter, during which time she had drifted about seven miles from JNewcattle. At daylight finding that tlie cutter had tint received much damage sent; the mate of the steamer wi.h two hands and the man belonging to her on board tor the purpose of taking her into Newcastle;