MESSAGE No. 28.

His Excellency the Officer administering the Government transmits to the H-ouse of Representatives copies of such Correspondence a» can be obtained which is alluded to in a Resolution dated the 18th ultimo, No. 27, requesting that the House might be furnished with " copies of all Correspondence which has taken place between the General Government of New Zealand, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, relative to administration of the Waste Lands in the Province of Otago, both within and externa] tj the Otago Block, since the retirement of the New Zealand Company. R. H. Wyntarb. Government House, .Auckland, Bth August, 1854.