The allotment has 22ft frontage, 26ft depth, and fetched £SOO. The bidding was brisk. The original allotment was 30ft frontage, and was at one time offered to the Government for £550, but refused; and, therefore, taken by Weyergang into court where he obtained £BSO. Wellington, May 10. The judgment has been delivered in the special case, stated at the cost of the Govern ment, to decide the Marawhenua gold mining dispute, as between the riparian owners and gold miners. Judge Johnston read the opinions of Judges Chapman and Richmond, with whom he concurred ; those being the three judges to whom the case was submitted. The Judges entered at considerable length into the principles on which both re parian rights and miners privileges must be determined. The court held that, inas much as none of the Gold fields Acts con tained any provision for the disposal of the tailings, or as to the fouling of streams, directly or indirectly, necessarily or otherwise, although provision was made for taking and diverting of water; the ques tion must be referred to common law of England (so far as applicable) and to the Legislative provisions in analogous cases ,in England and elsewhere. It appeared that in similar cases as this, some riparian rights were respected, and such riparian rights had not been abridged by any of the Goldfields Acts as yet in force in New Zealand, except ing so far as to allow the taking of water. This exception being expressly named, must be held to mark the rule, and therefore it followed that miners had no right to allow their tailings to flow into a stream running through lands held in fee simple or on lease from the Crown; thus, if a stream flowing through private property were polluted by tailings, the owner of the property had a right to nominal damages agaijst the per son causing such pollution, and if to nominal then also to such substantial damages as should be proved to have been sustained. On these grounds the Court gave judgment for the plaintiffs, no costs on either side. Mr Vogel telegraphs, under date April 28th, that the arrangements for the sub marine cable were progressing satisfactorily, and were nearly completed, with the Eastern Extension Company. He is still suffering from a severe illness. He purposes leaving for New Zealand as soon as the doctors permit him. 