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New Zealand Mail, Issue 5, 25 February 1871, Page 16

Local Railway.—The “Wanganui Chronicle” understands that arrangements are in progress for r,n immediate survey of the country from Manawatu to Taranaki, for the purpose of reporting upon a line of railway through these districts respectively. Mr Stewart, so far as we have heard, will be engineer-in-chief. Restricting ourselves in the meantime to our own more immediate vicinity, we believe the li»e from Rangitikei will pass along the bridle track to the Turakina river, then continuing the same route to the Wangaehu, it will cross that river somewhere about Matatera, mounting the high bank hear where the late Mr Shield’s house stood, and finding its way into the Matarawa valley, along which it will come all the way to Wanganui, crossing the river by a bridge, of course, at the Market Place, where the Station will be erected, and from which the line will proceed very much in the same direction as the Brunswick road, on to Waitotara, Patea, &c. Journalistic Enterprise. Newspaper proprietors generally are not in the habit of disclosing the secrets of their business to the public, but on the side -of the Atlantic lees reserve is exhibited. The New York “ Tribune” lays before its readers a statement of the amount it expended from July 28 to October 5 in the collection and telegraphing of war news from Europe. Within the period named the “Tribune” paid to its correspondents at the seat of war and to the cable companies the large sum of 56,000 dollars, or say, in round numbers £II,OOO. By an arrangement with three of its contemporaries it received back about £4,000, leaving its own outlay at £7,000 for a little over two months’ work in one field. One day’s charges for telegraphing alone reached the large sum of “ £BIB 10* gold.”