MESSAGE No. 12.

His Excellency the Officer administering the Government transmits to the House of Representatives a Petition from certain Electors of the Waimea District in the Province of Nelson, complaining of the undue return of William Thomas Locke Travers, to serve in the House of Representatives, in order that the validity of the return complained of may be duly determined. R. H. WYNYARD, Officer administering the Government. Government House, Auckland, sth July, 1854.