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

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

The dissatisfaction that has long been felt with regard to the tenure on which pro-, perty in this township is held and respecting which representations weio made t<> the Minister of Lands, when here some six months ago, will, it appear-., be now shortly removed. Fearing that the matter might have been f<>i gotten the Chairman of the Improvement Committee- wired to Mr Balhnce a week or two since, asking whether anything had been done, and received a reply stating that the subject had been dealt with in the Mines Act, now be- j fore the House. A copy of the Act wan recently received here, and from whit appears therein it would seem that the wishes of the section holders will be in a great measure fulfilled. Under the present conditions of occupation there is a doubt as to whether occupiers can lenew their leases after the first twenty-one years ha\o expired, but the new Act entnely remove,?, this doubt, as it gives the lessees* th» -ib>o Luto''Khf of renewal n* the end of eich similar term, .is long a> the , or thpn iieits choose to hold possession. Pr.a isim i> also made for compensation for impio\empiits, and in thosi! iospo C t, the conditions are similar to tho*p of a perpetual lease, which form of tenure failing the freehold accupioiH desired to procuio. It would pei haps have, been in some lespeots better, and moie in aceoi dance wic'ti their wishes if the township 1 mds had b'en withdrawn from the goldhelds altogether, and leases granted on the oidm.uv pei petual system, but there seems to be no doubt that' under the now Act holders of sections will b» placed on a much mote sati-fu«toiy footing than th.it on w inch they stand at present? On Thursday last Messrs Ahior and James, abated water manufacturers, sustained rather a <.eno i, 10-s by the death of tWO of their hol.es. A boy: containing ,x qu-mtitv of whcit had been left unco\ered in the stable, and to tin-, th' animals hid got access, eating hoartily of the grain Before it was discm nod "that they had partaken of this dangeious food both liot-os were watered and almost, immediately took ill, dying quickly aftei waids in spite of all efforts to save them. Tin; stoppage of tho survey for the coach road between heie and Tauiangi, on the lino known as Thompson's ti u-lc, ha-, caused considerable dissatisfaction, and there is some t ilk of a petition to the Public Woiks Minister, to uige upon him tlie desirability of hiving tho uo ( k ooni|ileted without delay. It is likeU that an apnLci tion will at the same tiiiv 1 be made to li ue tendors cilled for the foiimtiou of a section of the Thames railway at this end of tho line. How pleas \nt the sensation mint i>e on waking up Mini" iiimik ions iiiormn^ to tinii oneself iaised at once from a life of penury and toil to a position of wealth and independence ! A slioit time since o*ie of the crew i of the ii>er steamer Fatiki, plying between j

Ijith .niii t:ie Th iiiiu-, dropped into a for« tune of ( ici .(> many iciiin of thousand! <>f p' mid tliio ii},'h the rjt.it h of some rola* t;w ,-it Jlniui' \rjotlnr -iiiiiLt '•lice of liit'i; hn> f.ill. i,. it h >ttttd. to a working man n.mi^fl (_'(,, niliic, ie idmf? in the Sh t ft. -Win v Di-iirf, wli.> li i«, ju«t rocpired mtiirulw.n tint hf li is hid Ix'fjU^athftd to him tlw me litMn Mini of £10.000 Such u'l«iti"HK .. , tli. sc dii^lit X.illy to be mor« plrntiful.