QUEENSCLIFF.

West Coast Times, Issue 306, 15 September 1866, Page 3

QUEENSCLIFF.

Saturday, September 1. The brig Wolverine arrived this afternoon, with a cargo of sugars for Messrs Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co. She brings Mauritius papers «to 27th July. The " Commercial Gazette" reports much activity in the sugar market, and that all that comes to town fit for Australia or Bombay is eagerly purchased at high prices. Considerable quantities have been sold to deliver, at rates Varying from 6dol. 50c, to 7dol. 75c. for Nos. _13 to 20. The arrivals ' have been — the Sydney, from Sydney, with wheat ; the Salacia 'and John Eyston, from Melbourne. There is no news of importance. , , Monday,- September 3. The Hamburg clipper barque Charlotte arrived at the heads early yesterday morning, and proceeded to the entrance of the West Channel ; but the wind changed more to the eastward, and blew so strong that she was obliged to put back, and anchor off the Cliff. The Charlotte left Foo- chow on the 15th of June,'and had strong favorable winds to the latitude of New Caledonia ; thence she^ encountered, head winds, with occasional gales, which delayed her considerably. As it is, she has arrived here with the first cargo of this season's teas for Melbourne. She comes consigned to Messrs E. Cohen and y Co. ' ■ \ '

The following is from a late number of the " Ballarat Post :" — " A paragraph, which was evidently supplied by some malicious person for a wicked pui-pose, appeared a few days ago in the " Daylesford Mercury," and was thence transferred to many other journals. The -paragraph stated Mr George Graham, | whose wife was so foully murdered in Daylesford some time since, and who is now resident in Ballarat, was lying on his death-bed, and had confessed to being the murderer of his wife. This story is utterly false aad foundationless — a purely devilish invention. Mr Graham, who is obviously a youngsinan of quiet and retiring disposition, is in perfect health, and is daily following his occupation as a miner. He has not been ill tit all lately, • much less jjeen brought to his death-bed ; aud for the rest, we' had supposed that the execution, of the murderer Young, only after sufficient time /had been given to exhaust every conceivable means of testing the value of the man's p\ea of innocence, had for ever extinguished all doubts as to his guilt. It is a frightful wrong to an individual, and a most atrocious abuse of the liberty of the press, when false and malignant accusations of the kind we are now exposing are allowed to go into circulation. The " Daylesford Mercury " has, by doing so, perpetrated an act of outrageous and cruel injustice on Mr Graham, for which we hope it mil now. see the necessity of making some atonement." The Paris correspondent of the" "Daily Telegraph," of June 9, 6ays :—": — " In my letter of May 20 I .mentioned having heard an English tenor, Mr St. Germains, a pupil of the Conservatoire of Milan, of whom I ventured to predict great things. It seems that other persons were of my opinion, for an (Australian gentleman walked straight out of the concert room, and sent to Mr St Germains an offer such as might astonish even Italian tenors, who, are rather hardened as to terms. offer, wliich is counted by thousands, i? accepted, and Mr St. Gerraains {awe* »o<t ipvtojj to wtonish wv AmtmNw