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Glenbrook
From our Correspondent.
This is a very busy place just now, and
likely to be for many months to come. Good
progress is being made with the deviation
works, many of the cuttings being well for-
ward, and the power-house will soon be in
going order, when it is expected the tunnel
will be pushed on with. A new temporary
line is being put down to facilitate the work
out at the Bluff. There is now 2,000 people
at the different camps and water has been
laid on to all of them, and when the power
house (which is 200 horse power) is finished,
all will be lighted up with electric light.
The public school is now being held in
the School of Arts, in addition to the school
proper, which is occupied by the infants; a
new teacher having been provided. In the main
camp there are several stores, an up-to-date
billiard saloon and a Trades' Hall, where
meetings are held by the union, and lectures
given occasionally on various subjects.
There is still plenty of water in the lagoon,
which supplies the locomotives with water
by gravitation, and the different camps are
being supplied from Glenbrook Creek, pump-
ed up into a 20,000 gallon tank in the station
yard, and then re-pumped up to the various
camps for domestic purposes, etc.