BROKEN HILL TOWN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2443, 8 March 1888, Page 2

BROKEN HILL TOWN.

(by electric telegraph.— copyright.) Sydney, March 7. Reiterated complaints come from Broken Hill township, where there aro now nearly ten thousand people, of the neglect on the part of the Government, who are accused of throwing all the trade into Victorian and South Australian hands. The telegraphic arrangements are especially feeble, there not being wires to clear oil the work and operators have to be kept at work night and day in the endeavour to keep abreast of tho work. All the public offices are of the most miserable description and not a single Sydney bank is represent on the fiold. The streets of the township are constantly thronged with people and vast sums af money change hands daily. The stock exchanges aro conducted in the open air at street corners. It is expected by the end of tho year that tho population will have increased to twenty thousand and so good are the prospects of the principal mines that it is asserted • that fifty years' work aro in sight. Three daily papers are published there. A water nipply scheme is contemplated to bring water to the town from the Darling river 60 miles away. Several mines besides the Broken Hill Proprietary Company are now getting first-rate ore. The main lode has been proved to exist a distance of ten miles, but the full extent of the lode is now known to run a distance of twenty miles. A large number of fresh companies are to be organised to takeuplodes in the neighbourhood, several rich deposits having been discovered in other directions. The tin mines continue to attract attention, and considerable capital is being invested,