MESSAGE No. 27.

His Excellency the Officer administering the Government forwards to ttie House of Representatives the information required in a former part of a Resolution, June, (No. 8,) requesting that the House might be furnished with a "Return of all Lands sold by the Government in the Province ot Otago since the retirement of the New Zealand Company, the S Lands ' and in wll at manner such moneys have been With reference to the latter portion of the same Resolution, requesting to be furnished with a Return "of the number of acres of Waste Lands still remaining to which the Native Title has been extinguished; also, the numberof acres selected during the same period by virtue of land orders issued by Her Majesty s Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners and the J\ew Zealand Company respectively;" as such a Return could not be furnished without a reference to Otago, His Excellency has caused a communication to be addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands in that Province requiring him to supply the Government with the information necessary for its preparation as early as possible. Government Honse, R ' " WYNYARD. Auckland, 9th August, 1854.