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probably fortunate for them that they did not get a 
chance of tickling the whale with their harmless 
weapon. 
A sperm whale was taken this season by one of the 
shore-parties in Hawke's Bay, and another by a party 
lately established at Kaikora (" The Lookers-on") south 
of Cape Campbell. It is very rare for the sperm whale 
to be met with so near the coast of New Zealand. 
The Bishop made but a short stay amongst us, sail- 
ing for Nelson six days after he had arrived. He had 
left with us, however, a clergyman ; of whose services 
we had long been in want. The Rev. Kbbert Cole 
has ever since amply deserved and obtained the respect 
and kindly feelings of all the settlers as well as of his 
more immediate congregation. Bishop Selwyn became 
deservedly popular at Nelson during his short stay 
there. He was enabled by the Company's Agent there, 
who made him an advance on the fund to be derived 
from the Native Reserves, to order the erection of some 
buildings for the reception of native visitors on one of 
the Reserves in the town, and proposed to add schools 
and hospitals for the natives at an early period. 
Colonel Wakefield had offered the Bishop the same 
facilities at Wellington, besides two of the emigration- 
houses as temporary places for a native infirmary and 
school ; but his Lordship had pleaded the precarious 
state of his health, and a pressure for time, as an 
apology for not arranging these things until he had 
visited Nelson and New Plymouth. But he promised 
to return soon to Wellington for this purpose, and to 
start the erection of a Church. 
Since the destruction of the barn-of-all-work, the 
Church of England congregation had met in a house 
occupied by the Mechanics' Institute, inside the Public 
Reserve on which Colonel Wakefield's house stood. A 
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