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(A special charge is made on consignees' announcements inserted in this column.) Per Wallace, from Nelson : 7 crates, 7 cases coffee, 6 do eggs, 3 kegs butter, 1 bale twine. 15 cases egg«, I calf, 26 pigs, 4 kegs butter, 10 cases eggs. 2 kegs butter, 6 cases, I bale paper, 8 trunks, 2 cases, 1 box, 1 parcel, 4 cases cheese, 1 parcel, 2 cases eggs, II cases, 2 qr-casks whisky. 'The arrivals yesterday were the ps. Lioness, from Hokitika, which took in a cargo of coal, and left about midnight for the roadstead, bringing to the wharf the schooner Sarah ahd Mary from Lyttelton. She then left for Hokitika. The p.s. Titan arrived afc two o'clock this momißg, and returns this forenoon. The Wallace leaves for Hokitika this morning. The next steamer from Melbourne is the s.s. Alhambra, which is due here on Friday. At the meeting of the Wellington shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Company, held in the Oddfellows Hall on the 16th ult , Dr Grace stated that Messrs Shaw, Saville, and Co. "were at the present time making from L 200.000 to L 250.000 a year out of the New Zealand trade. The s.s. Coomerang has brought a cargo of 70 tons of coal from the Albion Company's mine, at the Ngakawhau. She was enabled to get over tho bar much earner than was expected, and though she touched the ground between the bar and the lagoon in Avhich she loaded, she makes little or no water, and therefore cannot have sustained any injury of importance. She will to-day however, for the satisfaction of the Company, be placed upon the gridiron or slip at the port, where she will be thoroughly examined. The Coomerang is a wooden steam vessel, built only a few years a^o, of great power, and iv good condition. She is particularly adapted for the cattle trade, and as experience'has shown that she draws rather too much water for the Ngakawhau, it is probable that she ■will find employment in the cattle trade of the port, while one or more successors for her of lighter draught will be sought for to take up the Albion Coal Company's trade. — Nelson Examiner, December 6.