New Zealand Amazons.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 6

New Zealand Amazons.

The correspondent ai Tauranga of the Daily Southern Grout/ writes: —"Yesterday our hitherto well-conducted little community was disgraced by a very uuwomauly contest between the wives of two well-known, citizens, witnessed by a numerous concourse of bystanders, who, in place of interfering to prevent so unseemly an exhibition, gazed on with apparent delight. The original cause of the quarrel was the question rirst of proprietorship and then of gender of a certain domestic fowl: a very insufficient one to induce two of the gentler half of humanity to forget the decorum of their sex and the publicity of the occasion. A provoking altercation ou hoth sides at last so exasperated one of the ladies, who was short and stout, that she made a wild onslaught on the other and taller of the two, who, either more cool or more experienced, dealt her a sounding blow on the mouth, which tumbled her backwards on the sand, where she remained for a moment, panting, in a sitting posture, but rising immediately, retaliated with an angry slap at her opponent. The end of it was that the two closed in a desperate struggle, iu which the robust lady came very badly off, and was ultimately laid prostrate, exclaiming that she was killed. During this sad spectacle not one of the spectators interfered, but shamefully indulged in uproarious mirth ; and even the police officer, who arrived at the close of the proceedings, was seized with uncontrollable laughter, amidst which, and the cheers of the crowd, the fair belligerents escaped to their homes, without having settled the original cause of dispute, which will probably have to be decided by legal process."