NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

OKA FBBBS ASSOCIATION-. J AUCKLAND, August 13. The funeral of Lord Abbot Alcook took plaoe to-day. The body had been on the previous night laid in state in St. Benedict Ohurch, and dirges sung. Father Downey preached tho fnneral discourse, and the Very Bov. Father Fyne colebrated the solemn Requiem mass. The ohurch committee bore the body to the grave. There were 3000 present. The body will be placed in a vault temporarily, peuding the s tting apart of an enclosure for the burial of members of the Benedictine older.

WELLINGTON, August 13. The stables belonging to Mr Levin, M.H.R., were destroyed by fire at 2 30 thia morning. The horses ond some harness were saved. The fire is supposed to have originated through a defective fireplace The steamer Tui, which left Kaikoura for Lyttelton on Thursday afternoon, has broken down, and was sighted by the steamer Penguin about fifty miles from the latter port. Tho Tui was then under canvas. It is understood that her shaft has broken. The Penguin supplied the steamer with provisions. The agents in Wellington have telegraphed to Lyttelton for a steamer to go to her assistance.

The deciding match vo the football tournament, between the Wellington clubs and the country distriots, was played at Newton yesterday, and resulted in a victory for the Wellington Athletio Club.

A private letter from Sydney states that it is probable several of the best rowing men in Sydney will visit New Zealand after Punch's regatta, in Ootober, to try conclusions with B.ez.TD, the champion sculler of New Zealand.

A splendid sample of stone has been brought in from the Golden Crown Beef, Terawhiti. The gold was freely visible. About 600 persons were present at the conversazione given by Sir Jas. Prendergaat, as president of the New Zealand Institute, in the Colonial Museum, last night. TIMABC, August 13. Early on Saturday morning a constable discovered that the jsweller's shop of Thos. Ljle, Main South road, was on fire. With assistance he broke open the back door and extinguished the flimee, but not before a great deal of damage was done. The stock was insured in the Standard for £4OO.

DUNBDIN, August 13. The lad Webb, it ho was out in the snow on the Teviot ranges for five days, and was badly frost bitten, has been bronght to the Dunedin Hospital, where yesterday the operation of amputating both his legs was performed.