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At last meeting of the Shire Council, Cr Whiting gave notice that at next meeting of the Council he would move that the Government be memorialised on the desirability of having [[Railways|railway]] on the Fairlie principle up the Valley of the Goulburn from Tallarook to Jamieson so as to connect the large and important population on the banks of the Goulburn with the great North-Eastern Railway. The consideration of this resolution is by for the most important subject that has been brought before the Alexandra Shire Council. So long as the Victorian railways are constructed on the old principle of the 15t. 3in. broad gauge, at on expense of £36,470 per mile it was hopeless to expect branch lines; but now that experience has shown that railways can be constructed on the Fairlie principle at little more than the cost of m in roads, there can be no reasonable objection to a Goulburn Valley line. Yea, Alexandra, Gobur, Thornton, Darlingford, Enoch's Point, Jamieson, Wood's Point, and numerous surrounding localities would be greatly benefitted by such a line, and the rich resources of the principal river in Victoria brought within a comfortable distance of the other great centres of population in the colony.