MOFFATT’S CAREER.
A correspondent of the Thames Star gives a biographical sketch of Moffatt, who was murdered by the natives at Talma, in which he says—“ William Moffat was—l had it from his own mouth—a nephew of the celebrated Dr Livingstone, and likewise of Dr Moffatt, the African missionary. He was a clever and well-informed man, and could do anything with mechanical tools, and built mills and manufactured ploughs and other implements of husbandry for bis Maori friends. Twenty long years ago I bad business in the Waikato district—not the Waikato of to-day, dotted with its smiling English homesteads and well-cultivated farms, but an expanse of trackless bush ami fem land, with intervals of swamp, a native village here and there, being the sole representatives of human habitation. It was at this time I first made the acquaintance of Moffatt, who was then a very big man with the Maoris.”
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Patea Mail, 27 November 1880, Page 4
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