The Government of Pretoria took up the attitude that has succeeded so well in deceiving public opinion: that of a council composed of honest men, innocent victims of capitalist rapacity.
5 .-- _The Murder of Mrs.Appelbe._ Here is a proof of the security enjoyed by the Uitlanders, at the very time when the Government of Pretoria closed its list of signatures to the counter-petition.

On Friday April 28th, Mrs.Appelbe, the wife of a Wesleyan minister of Johannesburg, was going to chapel accompanied by a Mr.Wilson, a chemist.

They were set upon by a band of men in the pay, it is said, of canteen keepers, sellers of liquor to the natives.

Mrs.
Appelbe received such severe injuries that she died on the Thursday following.

Mr.Wilson, who was badly wounded in the head, eventually recovered.