MESSAGE No. 14.

His Excellency the Officer administering tlie Government transmits to the House of Representatives, a copy of a correspondence which has taken place on the subject of a special allowance being granted to the Officers and Men, of Her Majesty's Regiments, serving in New Zealand, in consequence of the present high price of the necessaries of life. His Excellency has been requested, by the Military Authorities, to forward this to the House, for its favourable consideration when the Estimates of the Public Expenditure are under discussion ; accompanied with an intimation that the issue of ss. per diem to the Officers, and a free ration to the non-Commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates, has as yet been a charge against the Imperial Chest, the former since the Ist of April, and the latter since the Ist of June, and is subject to the confirmation of the Imperial Government. R. H. Wynyard, Government House, Auckland, 7th September, 1854.