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BABKLY RULE 1). FREE STA.TE RULE. 413in its issue of April 26th, 1872, commenting upon theGovernor's attempt to annex the diamond fields to theCape, states:-"No one would ask for a continuance of the existing state ofthings. IntJOmpltMcy aloIN tooultl t/uir, till P"'P,tuation oj BUell IIfail""~ til our (Jommilnonw, luMJ, fIIIItl8 0/ Britilll"", on tAu, fliltll.Upon this matter we have spoken freely before, and 80 have ourlocal contemporaries."Under the Free State Government neither disordernor lynch-law were so much as dreamt of. Diggers'committees managed the regulations and details of theworking, at the different fields, and gave generalsatisfaction.Police (then thought inefficient by a few)paraded the different camps by day and by night, and .never failed to preserve law and order. All this wasvery quickly altered by the usurping authorities. subsequentto their forcible installation of themselves.In the Diamond NetQ8 of December 16th, 1871, occurthe following remarks :-"In the IMmond N8tD, lately appeared a picture of Du Toit'sPan at "igAt, as it was under the acknowledged very ine1BcientFree State police, and in contrast, as it is now that these arewithdrawn. The comparison was not creditable to the energy oradministrative abilities of our present rnlera; and a comparisonof Free State rnle with Oape rnle on other matters would nottell much more favourably for the latter . . • The much-belaudedBritish Government, whioh was to set all things right, and do80 much for the diggers, "",,.8tluc4d tAl Cflmp' to tMi,. primitifJ',tilt, 0/ 88lf-proUdion."In the Diamond New8 of July lOth, 1872, eightmonths after the"elta61ilhment of Sir H. Barkly'. rule, areto be found the following observations :-" Robberies are becoming 80 frequent. that to chroniole in detaileMIl only toMeil a,., lwougAt to our raotiCl is more than our limitedDigitized by Goog Ie