Mr.Krueger had already attacked Mafeking, and annexed the territory.

The Boers retreated, but brutally murdered a man named Bethell who had been wounded by them.
That same year, the case of Mr.James Donaldson came before the House of Commons.

He held property in Lydenburg.

He had been ordered by two Boers (one of whom was in the habit of boasting that he had shot an unarmed Englishman since the beginning of the war, and had fired on several others) to abstain from collecting hut taxes on his own farm.

On his refusal he was attacked by them; three other Boers joined them, and he was left in such a condition that he was thought to be dead.
Upon the representations of the English Government the aggressors were condemned to pay a fine; but the Government of Pretoria remitted it! An Indian, a British subject and man of education far superior to that of the greater part of the Boers, while following a bridle path trespassed on the farm property of a member of the Volksraad, named Meyer.