TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Friday.

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TE AROHA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Aroha, Friday.

The dissatisfaction that prevails throughout this district respecting the present most inconvenient mail service, and likewise, with the existing railway time-table will shortly be evinced in a practical form. A public meeting is annouueed for to-morrow evening, when both subjects will be fully disoussed, and from the present tone of general conversation it is likely that a petition will be determined upon to the heads of both departments, praying in the one case for an immediate alteration in our postal arrangements, and in the other for a return:to the old timetable, Whatever diffor«n«e of opinion .1 tf-, , n

niay- exist h«rc regarding local selfgovernment and matters pertaining thereto, there is perfect unanimity as to the necessity for a speedy reform in the directions referred to, and any action that is decided upon at the meeting may be looked upon as an embodiment of the wishes of the entire community. A considerable degree of energy has been displayed for sometime past in puling forward the works at the railway bridge, and had operations been carried on as vigorously from the start it would long ere now have been open for traffic. The concrete portion of the pier is now finished, and the timber work for the bed on which the machinery will rest for working the swinging part of the bridge is now being proceeded with. Most of the iron work for that section of the structure now lies on the ground ready for putting together, and if there is no further halting, it is probable that the end of January may see the contract completed. Nothing has yet been done towards forming the eat th work appioacli at the western end, and until this is taken in hand and finished, the bi idge will be useless for general traffic. It is desirable that no time should be lost in carrying out this part of the undertaking, and a strong effort should now be made to have the whole of tho woik completed and the bridge made available for public use at the earliest date possible. The quietude that usually prevails in mining localities for sometime before and after the holiday season is beginning to be felt here, everything being now exceedingly dull. The state of matters may be expected to continue for a time, as them will be the customary Christmas exodus of a large number of the mineis ami others who look lor pleasure elsewhere than in the scjiic of their daily labours. There is, of course, the usual hoarding up of money wherewith to gratify their inclimtions, and local 1 usiness people are already feeling the effects of it.