NELSON.
January 8. Mr. Ingpen, the Registrar of the Supremo Court at Invercargill, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling public moneys.
Lieutenant Cowther lost"his life in a duel because ho was refused admittance to a club of pigeon shooters. In 1777, a duel occurred in New York City, between Lieutenant Featherstonehaugh, of the 75th, and Captain McPherson, of the 42nd British regiment, in regard to the manner of eating an ear of corn, one contending that the best eating was from the cob, and the other that the grain should be cut off from the cob before eating. Lieutenant Featherstonehaugh lost his right arm, the ball from his antagonist's pistol shattering the limb dreadfully ; so much so that'it had to be amputated. Graham, Major Noah's assistant editor on the National Advocate, lost his life in 1827, at the duelling ground at Iloboken, with Barton, son-in-law of Edward Livingston, in a simple dispute about " what was trumps " in a game of cards.
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 625, 12 January 1872, Page 2
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163NELSON. Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 625, 12 January 1872, Page 2
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