MR. JOHN GRAHAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1518, 6 October 1868, Page 7

MR. JOHN GRAHAM.

To the Editor of the Heuaxd. Sib, —Tf it is all true that I have heard from different persons, John Graham is still alive and well; yet there has always been some doubt by some parties whether he was drowned or not. I always, till a few days ago, believed it she case. Being in town last Wednesday T w-'.n Manding close by the Poßt-office, out of a shower of raiD. I was standing near to two respectablo persons and their discourse was about John Graham being drowned. I beard one of the two personß positively declare he saw John Graham, belonging to the - firm of Graham and Kirkwood, at Melbourne, and I am not sure whether he did not say he was talking to him; but since last Wednesday I heard a lady soy she had been told that John Graham had been seen well and hearty at either Melbourne or Sydney. There is nothing impossible, he might have been upset, and afterwards, like Jonah, swallowed by some large fish and spewed up again in the Melbourne harbor. I hope it is all true I have heard, nnd if bo, we might toon have the pleasure of seeing our old iriend John Graham in Auckland again.—l am, Sc., Ben. E. Tubneb. Eetreat Cottage, Oct. 2nd, 1868.

To the Editor of the Herat.T). Sib, —I was considerably entertained by a paragraph that appeared in the columns of the Daily Southern Cross this morning respecting "the weather." Tour contemporary says that " the weather during yesterday was rather stormy;" "yesterday," of course, was Sunday, and as far as my own experience of Sunday goes, it was one of the very few fine days that we have experienced in Auokland this spring. There was scarcely a drop of rain during the whole day, and the wind waa never .stronger than a main-royal breeze. : The Cross also says ithat the wind was north-west. Perhaps he depends on his weathercock, and that useful article may have been fixed by some malicious person in a north-westerly and south-easterly position, otherwise he could not h»ve mistaken B.S.W.— which was the direction of the wind on Sunday—for N.N.W. But the funniest part of tho whole paragraph gis to come. You will please to remember that aocording to the Cross tho wind was at North West, notwithstanding which faot, tho brig "Heather Bell" whilst getting under weigh " drifted ashore at the North side of the harbour. Bounty when unadorned, &o.; any remarks would take off from the " n&ked beauty " of the paragraph. It-appears, moreover, from the Cross's own' confession that he mentioned the brig Heather Bell in his Friday's issue as having left for Newcastle. It does not 'appear from his arrivals since Friday that the Heather Bell returned to Auckland, and we must therefore conclude that she did not leave for Newcastle ; in such case, however, on# would have thought that " leaßt said, soonest mended."—l am, &0., An Ex-Shellbaok. Queen-street, October 5. [The brig Heather Bell left the harbour for Newcastle on Friday last; the brig Derwent dragged her anchors 6omo distance early on Sunday morning, but nerer approached nearor than 300 yards of the the North Hhore. —Kd. N.Z.H.]