AN UNSEEMLY QUARREL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1386, 1 September 1885, Page 1

AN UNSEEMLY QUARREL.

A sensation was created in London fashionable circles on July { 22nd hi the report of a fist encounter between Lord Lonsdale an'd Sir; Chetwynd. The fight took place’ in ‘h !i wetl known resort in Rotten Row, land lasted ten minutes. The men ,;tfer.e>: jealona of each other, as . both were paying; attentions to Mrs.:; Langtry, the actress. Mrs Langtry explained to s correspondent of the that the men quarrelled because one of possessed a portrait of her, painted in China, which the other thought he ought not to keep, adding at the same time "thai'«their quarrels are nothing to' rde.” ’ Tha World says that their trouble! srew out of an experiment on' Lord Lonsdale’s part to (livert' : Mrs Langtfji’k affections from Sir G. Chetwynd, her lovfl'rbf half a dozen years' precedence. The actress 1 (t town to avoid the consequences of the scandal in London. The. London Vanity Fair denounces in effect Lord Lonsdale and i>ir 0. Chetwynd as unworthy of toleration by gentlemen. The article 1 calls them ‘titled blackguards, and declares’they are worse thkb ( arid their conduct is !tf modern manners. Itlaments thi* instance there is an ; aboljhpp, of tha code of duels, which would/have put the fighters on equal tornifcp'sifdi)given iibfies’ todlJ"-world ! <(f b. ing’rid'of one or 'both ohliemT' Tie? Radical journals era making grea* capital uht of I'bh'a'ffnir.