BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9090, 29 April 1890, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

IVY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COPYRIGHT,] [Special to Press Association.] [Received April 28, at 12.30 p.m. I PIANOS FOR SCHOOLS. LONDON, Araiii 27. The London School Board have decided to furnish the schools under their management with pianos. SEE OP ST ALBANS. Dr Barry denies that he was offered the See of Sfc Albans. THE ITALIAN PASTER. On Saturday Signor Jean Succi, the Italian faster, completed bis fast of forty days. The first nourishment ho partook of was a little bouillon. He has promised to reveal the secret of the elixir which, it is said, has enabled him to complete his undertaking with so much success. Signor Succi lost 341 b in weight during the task. [The preparation used is understood to have been somewhat similar to chlorodyno, one of the active principles of which is a powerful narcotic commonly known as Indian hemp.] STANLEY. Sir Arthur Blythe and Baron de Worms were among those who welcomed Stanley on his arrival, and Baroness Burdett-Coutts presented him with a bouquet, Stanley has gone to Sandringham on a visit, to the Prince of Wales. OBITUARY. The Earl of Glasgow. [George Frederick Boyle, sixth LV-. Glasgow, eat in the House of Lord ■ Lord Ross. He was born in 1825. lie :v member of the House of Commons for Biito, in 1365, and was appointed Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, ia, 1870 - He u

succeeded in the Earldom by Captain D. Boyle, E.N.] THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN. Lyons, one of the members of the Australian Eleven, while exercising on a trapeze on board ship, sustained rather a nasty fall. He struck the gratings, and strained the muscles of his legs. Heavy gales were met with in the Bay of Bascay, during which Jones and Trott were slightly injured. In a match which the team played at Gibraltar, Turner took nine wickets at the cost of fifteen runs. The eleven commence practice on Tuesday. [Received April 2E), atl.SOa.m.J SPORTING. ApniL 28. The sporting writer of the Standard, in an article ou Mr White’s pair of Derby colts, states that a recent trial proves them to be only second-raters. Kirkham will make his dehut in the Hastings Plate, of one mile, to be run at tho Newmarket first Spring Meeting to-morrow. RULE. BRITANNIA.

At tho annual dinner of tho. Civil Service Club, Lord Wolseley ridiculed the idea of tho English Navy being defeated and Great Britain compelled to surrender in the event of her being engaged in war. Ho declared that it would be impossible for an enemy to blockade British ports and prevent the introduction of supplies.