RUSSELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 684, 23 January 1866, Page 5

RUSSELL.

[rno3t OUR OWN COBHESrONDENT.J I HAviJ to report the arrival thi« day of the American whaling barque Pacific, Captain French, of Sag harbour, five months out; they killed a large sperm whale off the Three Kings on Tuesday last, and are stiU trying out. The second mate met with a severe accident, having put his shoulder out darting an iron. The cutter America, Captain neeler, called in ■ last evening from Norfolk Island with a cargo of cattle, she Bailed for Auckland this morn .ng. _ Our cricketers have returned from Wangarei victorious, having won by 69 runs. I would have sent you ho score, but I suppose your TVangarei correspondent has supplied you with it» They give a glowing report of the kindness and courtesy of our "Wangarei friends, and of the beauty of the country. The return match is to be (played here about tho latter end of February. X am very glad to hear that immigrants under the Bay of Islands Settlement Act, are really coming ; they have been expected so long that we had almost given them up. I suppose they will arrive sometime next month, thongh I cannot find out whether the Mary Sheppard brings them direct here which wou .d be much the beet piau for all parties, or whether they are to be transhipped from Auckland which , would of course entail a much greater expense on 1 partiee,