Something about Kroonstad.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4053, 17 May 1900, Page 4

Something about Kroonstad.

Of Kroonstad, the important town in the Free State' reached by Lord lloberts’s army, a contemporary gives the following account: —Kroonstad is familiar with all old Johannesburg men as the happy little resort where the over-worked could enjoy boating, fishing, a little shooting, and the waters, which are of a medicinal kind. It perhaps was too far or too expensive to run down to Natal, and time was money in the period of the great speculating days of the Witwatersrand. The journey could be accom-

plished in seven hours, and the change was agreeable. Kroonstad, too, was the fashionable resort for the newlymarried people who could not manage to take the usual run to Capetown, or the ideal of the well-to-do; indeed Kroonstad was a town that pretty well existed on the presence of visitors from the Rand, who had a habit of spending their "money in such a prodigal sort of way that the Jobannesburger 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, save the travelling cyclist, who had to pay pretty heavily to get his machine through.