BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 4108, 27 April 1876, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Christchurch, April 26. One hundred and twenty salmon ova have been hatched out.

Heavy rain has fallen steadily since last night. Many of the streets are partially flooded, and the low-lying parts of the suburbs are under water, A gale was blowing from the south-west all day. . April 27. The weather is clearing up.

Wanganui, April 27. The man arrested on suspicion of being Cunningham, the Lake Ohau murderer, was discharged, his personal identity being proved, and the man taken up by the police not recognising hj m as Cunningham.

Hokitika, April 27. The first case of typhoid fever on the West Coast has made its appearance. The patient is a passenger by the last trip of the Otago.

New Plymouth, April 27, The Hon. Mr Bowen had a conference with the Harbor Board yesterday, relative to the construction of harbor works, establishing a central prison, and the employment of conriot labor. The Board agreed, with slight modifications, to the following proposals by the Government The central penal establishment to be erected near the harbor works ; the actual value of convict labor to be charged on the harbor endowment fund, the balance of the fund to be expended on tne works as money is available ; whenever a sufficient amount accumulates, contracts to bo let for accelerating the progress of the work; no change incidental to the construction, maintenance, or discipline of the convict establishment to he charged, upon the Harbor endowment, and an Act is to be introduced next session of Parliament to carry out the above.

{From our own Correspondents) Wellington, April 26. A cable message from the Philadelphia Exhibition Commissioners has been received to-day by a private firm here offering to pay all expenses if the said firm would ship to Philadelphia a Maori chief, with war-paint, &c., complete.

_ __ . Oamaru, April 27. ihe Maori, which left yesterday in the teeth of the b.W. gale, got as far as the t ish reef by 6 p.m. At 11, the gale and sea increased, and she hove-to till daylight this morning. She was then only fourteen miles from Taiaroa Heads ; hut not having sufficient coal, ran back here and arrived at 8. . . • Mosgiel, April 27. . e Taxen is bank high, and a flood is anticipated.