Duel Between two Ladies.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3037, 25 October 1888, Page 3

Duel Between two Ladies.

The London- correspondent of the Duiiedin Star sends the following : A French paporstatestliut'a fatal duel has taken place at Cannes, the principals .being two young girls,-the ■younger aged eighteen and her adversary four years her elder. That any Freneb duol should spill. Hood, is n surprising- and: ■well ■ nigh incredible thing,' but'that young girls should bo. the combatants,; and that one of them who had her arm shattered by a bullot from tho pistol of her enemy whom she afterwards shot in the breast, inflicting a mortal wound is astounding. But as the organ which states tho fact is of high roputo and as the story has been copied into all tho English papers,. I will givo the story for what it is worth. Thus says tho Pall Mall Gazette:—" It now appears the duel reported yesterday, betweon two young ladios of Cannes, has resulted fatally. The two young ladies, who were of good birth and highly osteeined in tho town, had fallen in love with tho same young man, who was also of good family. Having bocomo mortal enemies, by n duel, whioh was not to terminate the two young ladies resolved to decide who should be the young man's wife till one of them should be killed or mortally wounded. Tho duel took place at five o'clock in tho morning, the weapons chosen being pistols. The youngor lady, only eightter' years old, was wounded in tho left arm the bona of which was shattered. Her adversary, four years her senior,. was mortally wounded in the breast. The tragic oveut has caused groat excitement in the town. This is thu •story as told by the t'renoh paper, and translated, by the good old Pall Mall, Personally I take it cum grmw. Jf it is true, a more disgusting thing never happened, and I am truly sorry for tho unfortunate Adonis, who is the cause of all the trouble, He evidently had' no say in the matter. Suppose he cared for neither, will he .date to refuse to marry tho victorious Amazon ivhohas "steepedher hands in gore" for his sake. It will bo a great deal safer I should think; for I imagine tho young lady might foel jiiolined to give him an ounce of lend or so, if he refuses to grant her what she Las risked her life for, and taken that;at',agirl of eighteen to obtain. Absurd Charge Against Missionaries,

■, Particulars havo boeu rccoived from Corea, via San Franoisco, of tbe terrible scenes wbioh too witnessed in the streets during which the lives of the foreign residents wero 80 unsafo that American, Bussian, and' French war vessels woro despatched to protect their subjects, Jt appears that an absurd rumor got spread through tbo capital, Seoul, 'that tbo American missionaries had ' purchased a number of native children, and, after killing thorn, had boiled their bodies to make medicino of them. The report circulated ' rapidly, md popular feeling becamo ■'; alarmingly aroused. Tbo Coreau authorities took what measures they could to preservo the lives of tho ' liiissionarioa and foroignors generally, but this was no easy taßk. _ Tbe nativos became furious, and nothing could appease tliem, The consuls, ; . fearingamassaoroatSeoul,despatched telegrams at once to Chemulpo for all war vessels logo immediately to Seoul. The Essex (American man-of-war), tbe Epio (Froncb), and a fcusßian war-ship left at onco for the scene of tho trouble. In tho meantime, however, tho natives had seized ' a number of tho Coreau officials, who they believed, woro privy to tho sale of tbe childron alleged, to have boen killed by tbo missionaries, and Ufiiie of the unfortunate men had their rTioads out off in the publio streets before the authorities could do anything to savo thorn, As soon as the war vosseh mado their appearance, the anxiety of tho foreign residents vm allayed, as instantly an armed ' party was landed from oaoli of the ships, The men proceeded to the different Consulates. It was not said ■ that any foreign residents had "been injured, though had not' the war vessels arrived in bo timely a. manner thoro would probably havo beon more bloodshed. Tho American man-of-wai'.' ship Inanita had just left Chemulpo before the cable asking for assistance was received, and on her return she immediately sot out for Seoul; She; however, got a'shoro near Gorth Island, whero she became firmly embedded, A report mentioned that sho had got afloat again after being asbore for two or tbrco days.