When (linnets were cooking and indusli'ial work was in full swing on I huesclity morning (lie electric power failed in Waipuknrau, .causing considerable inconvenience. | The recent lighting of a duel in Auckland recalls that it was not the first of its kind, one being fought on the Auok- ! land waterfront in 1846. The scene was nearly opposite the present railway station, where the tide used to come up to the foot of the cliff, which had at that time some line pohntukawa trees growing ■on it. The duellists were a barrister and 1 a- surveyor, they used pistols, and when they tired nobody was hurt. Ihe seconds then called the duel oil.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 4
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