THE COOK'S STRAIT CONSPIRACY.

New Zealand Herald, Issue 17, 22 December 1863, Page 4

THE COOK'S STRAIT CONSPIRACY.

The Seat of Government Question, appears to be exciting a very lively interest in the two Provinces (Otago and Auckland) the most likely to suffer from the nefarious combination. Yesterday we put the sentiments of the Otago Daily Times before our readers. And this morning we reprint the able and argumentative letter of a correspondent of the Otaqo Daily Telegraph. That letter is in reply to a leading article of the Tel eg rap);, wliich is too long for present insertion. We commend its careful perusal to our readers. It will be seen that Auckland v.ill not have to battle the Cook's Strait Cabal single handed. For even Hawke's Bay is not indifferent to the meditated fraud, if wo may form an opinion from the following extract which we clip from the Jlawke's Say Herald of the 12th instant.

In politics the talk of the last ten days has been the Sea), of Government question, which has been decided in favor of Cook' 9 Straits. The Auckland, and many of the Otago and Southland, members have been taking council on the subject, and I believe it will end in a separation, us Mr. Colenso justly predicted in his place in the House. It is to be deplored, but I don t see how Auckland and the other provinces of Taranaki and Hawke's Bay, which naturally go together, could submit, in the greatness of their wealth and population, (for great both must soon be) to the dictation and influence of a Wellington clique, seeking only the aggrandisement of a very poor province.