Coj\ti7med from Third page. involuntary witness of a tragedy in real life and in earnest. One of the contestants I heard call out in a low deep voice whioh •was almost suppressed by excitement and the efforts of the straggle, " You scoundrel, give me back my glove and gold dust." He wns evidently a West country man by bis accent, and I could see he was a fine stalw.-irt •specimen of man, bold, upstanding, broad chested, clean-featured, with a weil-turued head which was covered with short crisp flaxen curls. He was a handsome looking yourg fellow and had he been in fettle he would have proved more than a match for his assailant, but alas ! he was tipsy. I, boy as I was, could see that, and hence be was no match for the other who was evidently a powerful man. The second man in the struggle I saw dropped his hat and disclosed his features to me. He was clean shaved, whioh apppeared to mo rather strange when men in the colonies rarely shaved, very swarthy looking, and his brows, I remember, almost met, whilst his forehead, although broad and rather high, overhung bis ey;s whioh sparkled malignantly aa he almost hissed out the wordp, " Let go, let go or I'll make you, I haven't your gold, you fool." I can see it all now boys just as distinctly as I see you now. Aa you know, I have ee;n many men shot, bayoneted] and tomahawk d in fair and unfair fights Binoo then, but be lieve me, I never felt so bad as when I wit nessed that scene in Little Collins Street that morning so long ago. It didn't take long mir d you, it was very soon over. I saw tha yonug Weßt conntryman disengage himself from hiß opponent, draw a revolver from his belt, and was just in the act of presenting it, when the other — the dark man — I saw had drawn a knife, his arm was raisad in the act of striking, when the young fellow tripped and fell, the fire arms goiog off at • the same time. I don't know whether the bullet look tff-jct, bub he, with the knife, uttering a vile malediction Bprang upon bis prostrate foe. He raised his rigbt arm, aud in his uplifted hand, I saw the gleam of steel. 