MESSAGE No. 14.

With reference to a Resolution of the House of Representatives No. 15 of the 21st ultimo, requesting that "a comparative Return shewing the number of Vessels, with their tonnage, entered inwards and outwards, in ballast or otherwise, separating the Coasting from the Foreign, with the value ot their Cargoes, for duty and free of duty, in the Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Nelson, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago, up to corresponding dates, for the years from 1851 to 1853, inclusively, be laid on the table." Ilis Excellency the Officer administering the Government transmits to the House two Returns, which contain all the information of the kind which the Government are able to afford without a reference to each of the several Provinces, R. H. Wynyard. Government House, Auckland, Bth July, 1854.