A Glimpse of Broken Hill.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 169, 3 February 1888, Page 3

A Glimpse of Broken Hill.

TU ipe« a! r< purler of tbs S%dne\ M •r?**r.*• lit raid who * .»* U-d the *Hr wii 11..1 u>tiubi|M close to the t.. o* wh -Ii hav« ceased to much •p>. naum, .law-. mo:—•• Everybody in tirokon lidl dabbl-** tu »haic«. •nil everybody apparently makes iuomi. Life i* a gamble all through, a* - ■.. cruic remeikaJ. but life oo t..« lUrrur ia ui truth a gamble pure and simple. You will meet men who tuna year* ago. or perhaps lees than 10 u. otha since. had oo more thao the clothe* they stood in —men who were then working hard, and men who were scheming hard for a living. Now the greenr number are included tu the galasv of Silver King*, whose ruuihncai are to be found in the fashionable metropolitan suburbs, or who are • starring' it ill the old country, or iu Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. It meet, however, be undersioixl that it was not on the Exchange or by dialing in sharer that the big fortunes were made. It was those who held the leases, or. in mining parlance, • the first robbers,' aho came off best in the ulveriniuing excitement of tl>e past three years. Little more remains to he *a.d about the township pr<>|-er. xcept that hack from Argent both on the east and west, there are numbers of small dwellings built of c rrugated iron or wood and iron. These are mostly the residences of iu-itiC'S people slid miners, and very few of what might be termed couimod >.i- outages are to he seen. liroken 11 ill is yet too young for private houses of a j retentions ap|M-uratice to be erected. Ilrukcrs, laud and raining auctioneers, solicitors, ai.d doctors are to is- found jj ho. in Itrukeu Hill, and t .ere are. of course, the usual number of stores and other business places, and a fair sprinkling of itinerant yenslur* of all sorts of articles.' ’