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Tiie Koonya arrived at Oamarn at 7 o'clock this raoniing from Danedin with • •eneral cargo, including transhipments tx Hauroto, Kia Ora, and Taiiun. She sailed at 10 o'clock after loading about oO tons produce for Timaru and West Coast ports. The Kowhai is due at Oamaru at <> o'clock this evening from Dunedin to take cargo for Napier and Gisborne. She is announced to sail, via Timaru, at midnight. The Wairuna was announced to leave Bluff at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and is clue at Oamaru to-morrow morning. The Arapawa (Dalgety and Co., a -grits) will arrive at Oamaru on Saturday evening, and will start loading for \Vangaiiui on Monday morning. The Kurow is announced to leave Kaipara earlv nest week with timber for Sydnev, "and will proceed thence to Newcastle, where she will load for bluff, Dunedin, and Oamaru. . Captain W. Hutchings has resigned from the service of the Union Steam Shin Company on account of his healtli, and intends shortly to proceed to the Old Country. . . A rumor was in circulation in Lytteltnii on Friday and Saturday last to the .Sect that the well-known coastal m lioom-r Annie Hill had been Inst with ,11 hands. Inquiries made iu responsible nuarters tailed to elicit any continuation of the rumor. Air W. Cook, owner of the vessel, stated that he had i-.-ard nothing of the Annie Hill since ,i t . [oft Grevmonth on Sunday, loth ir-t for Lvttelton. It is stated that tli.- rumor regarding the loss of the yes--A was set in circulation by a drunken Viilor It was added to on the Saturday nitiht by the statement that the schooner Morning Light, which left Lyt-t-'toii last Saturday week for Waitapu. i■■ad also been lost. It would be well (romments an exchange) if groundless rumors of this kind could be sheeted i»,„i e to the originator, as they are the '■■■ use of needless pain and anxiety to tU relatives and friends of the crews o' vessels concerned.