FOOLISH FELLOWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 8 September 1880, Page 2

FOOLISH FELLOWS.

The Bunedin correspondent of flic Brace Herald is responsible for tbe following :— • L'olite duelling, I thought, was confined to France. It srems not, when even here, in un roaian'ic New Z -aland, blond must be shed fc* quell the fury of the hpart. As fate will have it. two Loth-irtos basked in the sunshine <f a certain youne lady's ejes ; anri the one feeling powerfully under the influence of the ' green«eved monster/ 'ca led the other r-W ,' and the Ocean Beach was the *P' t chosen for the sanguinary scene. Having arrived there one dark night, and the seconds appointed in (he ortho* Hox style, the opponents blazed away at each other until one of them was wounded in the shauHer, when he acknowledged that the other was now entitled to the la.iy, and accordinely re« tired from the amatory con'est. Of course, the affair is hushed up ; yet chiralry of this kind, like mur Jer, • will out.' Duelling in the American fashion is carried on here too. Late one night two young men liad a quarrel, and feeling that the only way to settle the afiair was to hack each other's ears off, thej proceeded to do «o with the aid of sailors' knives. They cut and sawed each other until a large pool of blood was drawn, when, feeling quite satisfied, they went on their way. and strange to t say, un* touched by Hie police.'