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Sorror Dan Leon Checa, Spanish Consul at this Colony, and Senor P. Torre Bueno, late Peruvian Consul at Macao.
2. The facts of the case, which though the Newspapers have become a matter of public notoriety, appear to be as follows: Owing to a quarrel between Señores Checa and Torre Bueno, the latter challenged the former to fight. The preliminaries were settled at the house of a Frenchman named Durbest, who is in trade in the Colony; Charles de la Forant, Acting French Consul, being given as a party to the challenge and subsequently acted as Second to Señor Torre Bueno.
3. The duel was fought outside the jurisdiction of this Colony. The two parties having landed on British Kowloon crossed the Boundary, accompanied by certain of the Officers of the Spanish-Man-of-War, the "Marques de la Victoria" and there carried out their intention.
There are details of what occurred which have reached me on good authority, but as they have come through third-parties and are barbarous, I think it best to omit them. Suffice it to say that Señor Torre Bueno was seriously wounded in the neck, and is now lying...