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Kruger responded on behalf of the Republic by publishing in the London press the cordial invitation and welcome and the promise of rights and protection to all who would come, so frequently quoted against him of late. By this time Moodies had attracted a fair number of people, and the prospects of the country began, for the first time with some show of reason, to look brighter.
The incident had a distinctly beneficial effect, and nothing more was heard of the maltreatment of defenceless men simply because they were Britishers. Moreover, with the improvement in trade which followed the gold discoveries of 1885 and 1886 at Moodies and Barberton, the relations between the two races also improved.
The Boer Government made it clear, not less in their purely internal policy than in these matters of extensions of territory, that they intended pursuing a line of their own. In 1882, the property known as 'Moodies, consisting of a number of farms bearing indications of gold, was thrown open to prospectors. The farms had been allotted to Mr.
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