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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 1 November 1900, Page 15

Prince Alsonso of Bourbon, brother of Don Carlos, has congratulated those Austrian officers who declined to fight duels, even at the cost of their commissions. The futility of these 'affairs of honor ' is shown by the account of the latest duel in Italy. The mortality for 10 years only averages three per cent. A Home paper recently informed its readers that the famous Boer fighter, Generol Botha, is married to a grand-daughter of the immortal Robert Emmet. Inasmuch as Emmet was never married, and so left no ' hostages to fortune,' it is not a little puzlinj to find, such relationship claimed for anybody,