Auckland, June 29, 1859 My dear Sir, Everything has hitherto proceeded in such a regular course, that I have felt it to be unnecessary to occupy your time with any remarks I might have to make on passing events. But now that the Direct Purchase move has been agitated, and has sustained a signal defeat or has in other words collapsed, a few of the opinions expressed out of the public speeches and meetings may be interesting. I fancy that Mr.Forsaith was the last man they should have chosen as chief orator, for though fluent in speech, he is rather given to contradictory statements, which people having better memories than himself have an unfortunate tendency to remember, and by comparing which they not unfrequently arrive at the conclusion that he is speaking in favor of a bad cause. Just about the time that the affair was at its highest state of excitement a new arrival from England per "Caduceus "