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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2390, 13 November 1880, Page 3

In another column will lie found an influentially signed requisition inviting the present Mayor of Timain to allow himself to he nominated for re-election. Captain Sutter, who has repeatedly proved himself the right man in the right place, and wno has never been known to shirk an obligation, has gracefully acknowledged the compliment by acceding to the unanimous wishes of the ratepaj ers.

Here is a fact worth knowing. A member of the staff of this journal had the luck to-day to upset a kettle of boiling water over one of bis hands. The accident would probably have disabled him for a week or a fortnight, but it occurred to him that some years .ago he saw a similar feat performed during a scientific lecture by I’rofessor Huxley, in the Polytechnic, London. The next moment he applied the Professor’s remedy, |and to his surprise the pain almost instantaneously disappeared and instead of the skin dropping off, his hand acquired its normal appearance. 'The remedy is a simple one, namely a strong solution of washing soda. In burns and scalds it is simply infallible, and as its cost is nominal wc would recommend every family to have a bottle of it ready prepared for cases of accident or emergency.

The man Moffatt, who has been shot down by the Maoris for invading their territory, has apparcnly suffered the fate of the inventor of the guillotine. An old soldier, said to have deserted from his regiment, he devoted a considerable portion of his life to teaching the Maoris how to manufacture gunpowder, and in return the Natives have disposed of him with the weapon that he placed in their hands. Persons who know Moffatt assert that the retribution that has befallen him is a just one. Just before his death he had finished a term of three years in gaol for gunpowder treason, and but for the fact that the chief witness against him, a man named Knott, died recently in the hospital, it is probable that Moffatt would have undergone a number of additional sentences. The deceased was well up in years—probably between 50 and (iO—but he was generally known in Wanganui as one of the leading spirits among a band of Pakclia Maoris, whose lives have been devoted to keeping up disturbances between the natives and European settlers.

The Loyal Timaru Lodge, 1.0,0. F., M.A., intend celebrating their anniversary on Nov. “o (Tuesday week), by a tea, concert, and ball. Dr Wilkins, Oculist and Aunst oK linstchurch intimates that ho will be at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, on Wednesday Thursday and Friday next, where persons suffering from eye ami ear diseases will be able to consult him. We have on various occasions called attention to Dr W’ilkin’s success in cases of this nature, and as the result of his previous visit to Timaru, we have no doubt he will be well patronised on this occasion.