Boer Atrocities, the Pretoria Lunatic Asylum and Its Inmates

I arrived on the Rand on the 11th November, 1895, but my sanguine ideas of obtaining professional employment were speedily dispelled It became necessary to do something to pay the inevitable cost of living, so I sought for a situation as book keeper, clerk, or store assistant. Through the kindness of the proprietor of the boarding-house where I was staying in Plein street I succeeded in obtaining an engagement as book-keeper and coach agent to Messrs. M. Green Co., Buffelsdoorn, and proceeded to take up the appointment early in December. On arrival at Buffelsdoorn, which by the way is nothing more than a thinly populated mining camp, I found a portion of my duties would be to act as postmaster under the immediate superintendence of the postal authorities at Klerksdorp, the nearest township. My period of service with Messrs. Green 83 Co. Was a brief one, as at the end of six months from my time of starting with them they became Involved in financial difficulties, and eventually the business was taken over by Messrs. M. Lipman Co., storekeepers, of Klerksdorp. I left Buffelsdoorn and made my way back to the Rand, but failing to get remunerative employment there, I left in October for Ladysmith, Natal, having been informed that there was a good opening there for a professional musician. I stayed in Ladysmith about sixteen months, engaged in teaching, accompanying at concerts, parties, etc. While here I was appointed Hon. Secretary for the Trinity College (london) Musical Examinations directly through the Board of that College.

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