As our readers are doubtless aware (says the Mount Ida Chronicle) a trial survey of a portion of the Main Central Trunk line of railway is now going on, which, if ultimately accepted, will offer much greater facilities to Naseby and its surroundings than the alterna tive route. The l>ne in question will enter Home Gully near Douglas', and crosses the Hogburn Creek considerably above Aimes'i?, and would thus bring the railway within a rea sonable distance of this town, besides giving points on the line which would be compara tively accessible to Kyeburn Diggings and in close proximity to the Kyeburn Hundreds. We are led to understand, though we have not b#en officially informed, that ia point of length there is very little difference between the two competing route', and that on the one now under survey the gradients are not such as to offer any reasonable objection to its adoption— a statement which will _be readily accepted by thnsa who are familiar with the country. The ultimata choice of the Minister of Public Works in the mater will depend largely and very triperly upon the results of the present survey, but if the_ facts are approximately as we have stated^ it will re main for the inhabitants of this district to show that nearly all the centres of population are strongly interested in the present as against the alternative route, and that to bring railway communication to the centres of population is an aim worthy of some slight sacrifice of cost, and an equally trifling deviation from direct- n e« 'of line. To accomplish this the best plan would be to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Minister of Public Works, before he goes to the session, and to arm the deputation with facts and figures, which are readily acce'sible, and which would give more weight to their cause.
