DUELLING FORBIDDEN.
MELBOURNE STUDENTS FINED. (Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Stanislaus Joseph von Ingwersen, descendant of a noble Dutch family, and Peter Lalor, great-grandson of the Eureka stockade hero, who fought a duel on June 21, were fined £1 each by the vice-chancellor for a breach of the regulations governing tlie conduct of students.
It was to avenge his honour after having been expelled from Melbourne University Conservative Club that von Ingwersen fought Lalor. Lalor had moved, a motion for Ingwersen's expulsion, and Ingwersen regarded this as a stain upon his honour and challenged Lalor to a duel with foils.
Clad in cloaks and accompanied by their seconds, an umpire and a surgeon, the duellists fought until Lalor stumbled and Ingwersen's foil gashed his ear. The contestants then shook hands and retired to drink coffee.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 148, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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