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Temuka Leader, Issue 1788, 11 September 1888, Page 3

Duelling in Fkanoe.— A Paris jury has given another strange verdict. It has acquitted the journalist Eugene Hubert, aged 47, who shot (he artist Felix Dupuis, aged 55, in a duel in Bols de Boulogne last April. Habert attended a reception at Dupuis’s house, where a young lady recited a sonnet on a picture by Dupuis. He then ridiculed both sonnet and artist in his newspaper. Being told that he bad violated the laws of hospitality, and would not be again invited by M, Dupuis, he wrote another offensive article. He was challenge! to a duel. He then practised pistol shooting at a sine figure, learned to bit it in the heart and aimed at bis adversary’s heart. The four seconds were indicted as accomplices. They had sbamfully neglected to attempt an arrangement, or to insist on an apology by Habert. All five ware acquitted. M. Anatole de la Forge, deputy, summoned as an expert in duelling, strongly condemned .the seconds for allowing the encounter to take place. Paris juries (the Times' correspondent remarks) have always acquitted a man who bad received strong provocation ; they now acquit the man who has given the provocation. New Zealand Bdtiee.—A corros* pondent writes to the New Zealand Herald In walking up either Market or King street in Sydney 1 came to a full stop before a provision dealer’s retail establishment. The matter that caused me to pause was a large blackboard with the words I No New Zealand butter sold here,’ carefully written thereon. I felt greatly indignant, for I consider the quality of our butter, at any rate such as i usually have set on ray table, fully equal, if not vastly superior, to such as I tastod either in .New South Wales or Victoria. Perhaps some of our grocers, produce merchants, or farmers can say whether this stigma thus publicly levelled Igainat our dairy produce in the capital ci*y of New South Wales is justly earned, and if it is mi unjust imp (nation suggest what steps should be taken to protect our produce from such slanderous insinuations. The best steps that can be taken would be by those who m*>ke the butter. There ia not in the world a country equal to New Zaalnnd for making butter, but in nine cases out of ten the butter one buys in the shops is simply rotten. The fault does not lie with the storekeepers ; it lies with the makers of the butter, who are so ignorant that they will not confess they require to be taught. The butter to be obtained in stores is a disgrace to any country, and the sooner buiter-makera learn how to make,butter the better.