BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(FROM OUR OW.V CORKESPOXDENTS.) Balc&otha, 29th April. The s.B. Taiaroa arrived at Port Molyneux at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and towed tho Surprise to the Lower Manuka Island, where she was met by the s.B. Tuapekn, which took tho Surprise to Balclntha. All right bo far. No boxes have been opened. "Wellington", 25>th April. Intelligence has reached thia place of great floods having taken placo in tho Province of Marlborough, reported to have been the result of five days' incessant rain. Thirty head of cattle are known to have been drowned. The mail communication throughout the Province has beon entirely suspended since Sunday. The telegraph lino beiween Peloni3 and Nebon has been washed away, and cannot be got replaced until the floods Bubsido.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2257, 30 April 1869, Page 2
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