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[Advt.] — Weakness and sickness changed to health and strength with using Hop Bitters always. See. Mr. Plunket, the British Minister to Japan, is a Catholic. The Paris correspondent of the Tunes, writing on Sunday, April 20, says: — Early this morning there was a duel with swords in the Bois de Boulogne! One of the parties was Mr. Joseph Casey, a Fenian who was arrested, with Colonel Richard Burke, iv 1867, and confined iv Clerk en well prison, the explosion there being designed to free them. He came to France immediately on his release, and served in the Foreign Legion during the Franco- Prussian war. The other combatant wa3 a Captain Scully, an Irish-American, who fought in the War of Secession and also in Mexico. He was suspected oE being an informer ; hence the duel. After several passes Captain Scully's sword broke, and Casey wounded him in the neck, but not seriously A reconciliation was effected, and the parties afterwards breakfasted ogether.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 23

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Page 23 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 23

Page 23 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 23