The sheriff seized Bezuidenhout's waggon in execution of taxes, and put it up to sale at Potchefstroom.

But the _volk_ kicked the auctioneer off the waggon and hunted him round the town; and now Governor Lanyon is sending Raaf down with power to swear in special constables and enforce the law at Potchefstroom.

He might as well try to stop a river by throwing stones.

Let me see, the big meeting at Paarde Kraal was to have been on the fifteenth of December, now it is to be on the eighth, and then we shall know if it will be peace or war." "Peace or war ?" answered the old man testily.

"That has been the cry for years.