THE CONVENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4279, 13 November 1876, Page 3

THE CONVENTION.

To the Editor.

Sie,—The action of our late Convention . is one of those'thinga which, to use the language of Lord Dundreary, "no fellow can understand." It seems contrary to the commonest principles of justice to send a special deputation Home to complain of the Governor writing to his superiors a dispatch vindicating himself from charges brought against him by Sir George Grey. And then, after all the money that has been expended in providing means of communication by railway with other districts of New Zealand, to call for separation from those very districts is a most extraordinary proceeding. Whatever may have been the beuefits conferred by Provincialism, its day is past and gone, and instead of resorting to semi-treason-able agitation to support a selfish system of isolation from the rest of New Zealand, it ' would bo4he more becoming course, as well aa the more rational, for our quondam legislators to set about with hearty good will making those arrangements in conformity with the provisions of the Abolition Act, whichwouldtendtothe peaceand prosperity of Otago as well as all the other parts of the Colony. I can see no results from the late proceedings of our so-called Convention but trouble and confusion. Trusting that wiser counsels will prevail, and the country may be saved the calamitous consequences arising from the disturbances which are likely to arise from persistence in a hopeless and uncalled for struggle, I am, &c, Delta. Dunedin, November 11.