Something about Kroonstad.

Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1900, Page 3

Something about Kroonstad.

Of Kroonstad town in theJFree State reached by Lord Roberta's funny, a contemporary gives the following account : — Kroonstad is familiar with all old Johannesburg men as the happy little resort where the overworked could enjoy boating, fishing, a little shooting, and thewaters, which are of a medicinal kind. It perhaps was too far or too expensive to run down to Natal, and ihne was money in the period of the [teat speculating days of the Witpatererand. The journey could be I ceompliahed in seven hours, and 'he change was agreeable Kroon--1 £*d, too, wai the fashionable resort air the newly-married people who fold not manage to take the usual un to Capetown, or the ideal of the rell-to-do ; indeed, Kroonstad was a town that pretty well existed on the pretence of visitors from the Band who had a habit of spending their, money in such a prodigal sort of way that the Johannesburger became a person of interest and remark in all the coast and inland towns of Natal, the Free State, and Cape Colony. It is at Kroonstad railway station that the Customs were collected, but no one had cause to complain on that score, gave the travelling cyclist, who had to pay pretty heavily to get jjtis machine through.