DATES OF BROKEN HILL FROM-1883-1893.                1883-Cobb and Co. established a coaching service between Wilcannia and Milparinka Messrs.Robertson and Wagner being the agent..                                                                                                                        1884-A survey of the Broken Hill leases was begun by E.H. Dawson on 27 August.  1885-William Delamore's hotel, the bonanza-hauled from Lake's camp near the Day Dream mine opened its door in Delamore Street in October, followed afterwards by the Silver King Hotel. John John, from  Silverton, started up a boarding house, and Walter Sully set up a hardware store. Brazill & Jones, storekeepers, Steward the Baker, and Nielson & Co.,  butchers, established their business premises conveniently close to the scene of operations.                                                                                  1886 - At the Proprietary mine great progress was made. The first smelter was opened on May 6 by Mrs. Kenric Brodribb, and a second unit was brought into operation in July. The Broken Hill hotel was opened by Matthew Vaughan and the Commercial Hotel by W.J.Cummins.         1887-The Willyama and Crown hotels opened during the year and Barnett Harris was the Licensee of the newly erected Duke of Cornwall Hotel; two men were burnt to death when the Duke of Cornwall Hotel was destroyed by fire on September 5.     The Denver City Hotel was opened on 1st October, at the north-western side of Argent Street between Chloride and Oxide Streets.(Cheap as Chips is now on the site at 356 Argent Street). This was the first stone and brick building in Broken Hill. The hotel was the first to be lit by gaslight in Broken Hill. 1888-The first live Theatre was opened at W.J. Cummins's Theatre Royal Hotel on August 27.   Broken Hill was declared a municipality on September 22.   Richard Piper, underground manager of the Proprietary Company became first Mayor.                                                      Barnett Harris rebuilt the Duke of Cornwall Hotel as a two story stone and brick structure.                                                                                                                      1889-The Gas Company began supplying its consumers, and Argent Street was illuminated by gas in April. The first electric light plant to operate in the township supplied electricity for the York hotel in September; a   3  candle-power arc lamp was erected on one of the hotel's towers, and interior lighting was installed.  The B.H.P. had introduced electric lighting at the mines in 1887,when Rasp and McCulloch shafts and the smelters, were lit up.                                                         1890--The new Colonial-style courthouse was officially opened on January 6.                   The appearance of Argent Street was improved by the erection of Pirie Chambers. The building included a 'cosy little cafe in the basement', which later became a licensed wine saloon.                           In Delamore Street the firm of G. & R. Wills contstructed a new warehouse (now occupied by the Adkins Joinery firm).                                                                       W.H. Newton rebuilt the Pig and Whistle hotel (originally opened in 1888.) and the Mulga Hill Hotel was constructed.                                        1891--The Commercial Hotel on the corner of Argent and Oxide Streets opened its new two - storey building which replaced the old single storey timber structure.                             The Broken Hill Hotel changed its name to the Freemasons Hotel in July.        The new electric light plant in Blende Street was given a trial run and worked satisfactory in August.                                                         In September Argent Street between Sulphide Street and Oxide Street was lit by electricity for the first time.                                                 William Humphries, formerly of the Terminus hotel, opened the Newmarket Hotel at the northern end of the township.                                                   1892--A disastrous fire occurred in February when several shops were destroyed, from the Southern corner of Argent and Oxide Streets, to Argent Lane.  1893--The York hotel, owned by S. R. Wilson and managed by J. H. Cosgrove, was destroyed by fire on March 15. The hotel (now the site of the Broken Hill Masonic Club) was first licensed on February 6,1888.