THE PAKEHA MOFFAT—REPORT THAT HE STILL LIVES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1191, 8 December 1880, Page 2

THE PAKEHA MOFFAT— REPORT THAT HE STILL LIVES.

Our Greytown correspondent sends us the following item of news : — On Monday night, while in conversation with Mr. A. Hirshberg, who had then just returned, via. Manawatu George, from Wanganui, Mr. Hirshberg told him that on the previous Friday a lar^e number of Maoris had come down the Wanganui River with wool and produce. Some of these had come from 100 miles inland, from the district wherein, as stated, the pakeha Mbffat was recently shot. He entered into conversation them, and one of them, addressing Mr. Hirshberg, said, " Look here — You pakehas think Moffat dead. I bet you (a favorite Maori expression for emphasis), Moffat not dead. I bet you, in two months, you see Moffat he alive." What weight may be attached to this statement, of course it is impossible to say, but the possibility is that . Moffat was only wounded, and that the natives may now be nursing him. The statement made by his companion Henare, the Maori, was that one of the party fired at Moffat and wounded him ; that Moffat then cried out, " Kati, kati," (stop, stop), when a second shot was fired, and lie fell en the track — a dead man. That is Henare's story, and, of course, unsupported by any other testimony, and it is quite possible that in his fright, he was mistaken, and that Moffat, after all, fell senseless from his wounds, and that life still remained in him when Henare left the spot.

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