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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 239, 8 October 1874, Page 2

Bather a smart and discreditable trick is reported by the \ Bekdigo Advertiser as having been playejS on the keeper of a coffee stall at Sandhurst. Some half-dozen young scamps who had been gambling away the night, in the early morning went to the stall. Having partaken heartily of edibles and potatoes, each of the six insisted upon pay in?. One of them suggested that they should have a race, the last in which should pay the score, and the pieman was appointed as atarter. <( Off, off, and away" was signalled, and the pads proved remarkably fast, as they went quickly out of. sight of the pro prielor of the coffee shop, who entertains an unpleasant surmise as to who's the loser. The following are the principal European Churches, and the number they can contain, allowing four persons to every square yard: — St. Peter's, at Rome, 54,000; Milan Cathedral, 37,000; St. Paul's, at Rome. 32,000; St Paul's, London, 23,600; St Petronia, at Bologna, 24,400; Florence Cathedral, 24,300; Antwerp Cathedral, 24,000; St Sophia's, Constantinople, 23,000; St John Lateran, 22,900; Notre Dame, at Paris, 21,000; in addition to which there ia the Cathedral, at Pisa; St. Dominic's, at Bologna, Cathedral, at Vienna; and St l£arkV at Venice, ranging from the fi|st at 13,000 to latter at 7000. Bofogna, with tf population of 69,000,^ possesses .three churches capable of seating three-fourths of the entire inhabitants.

A party of miners at the Shotover got £1,000 worth of gold in six weeks and two days. Another party working near cleared £90 weekly.