BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9428, 1 June 1891, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[B7 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.'] [Special to Peess Association.] I Received May 30, at 11 a.m.J EDISON’S LATEST. XiBW YORK, Mat 29. Experiments have been made with Edison’s latest invention, the kinetograph, which combines phonograph with, photograph, and the results obtained have been marvellous. CHOLERA. SUEZ. Mat 29. Consequent on the outbreak of cholera in the Eed Sea, a quarantine station has been established. STEAMER AGROUND. The P. and 0. Company’s steamer Arcadia is ashore in the Canal, but in such a position as does not interrupt the traffic. The vessel will have to be lightened, and a portion of the cargo is being discharged, iMANIPUR. CALCUTTA, Mat 29. The trial of the Native Regent of Manipur is fixed for June 1, and that of the Senapatti follows. It has been decided to allow them the assistance of British officers in their defence. EAST AFRICA. Z A K Z! BA B, Mat 29, The Governor of Mozambique and the British Admiral on the East African station will delimit the frontier of Massi-kesai. | Received May 31, at 5.50 p.m,] THE CANADIAN PREMIER. OTTAWA. Mai SO. Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, is paralysed. It is believed that Sir J. S. D. Thompson, the Minister for Justice, will reconstruct the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Mat 30. THE LATE P. T. BAENUM. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the body of the late P T, Barnum, who died on April 7. BIRTHDAY HONOURS, LONDON, M at SO. Among the birthday honours. Judge Windeyer and the. Hon Julian E v

Salamons, Q.C., of New South Wales, have been knighted ; and the Hon John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, has been created a K.C.M.G. The gallant seamanship of Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope, during the severe hurricane at Apia in March. 1889, has been recognised by Her Majesty, and he has been created a Companion of the Bath,

THE ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from influenza. THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT. The team of Victorian mounted riflemen has scored further successes at the Eoval Military Tournament. OBITUARY. The Earl of Clancarty, setat fiftyseven. His son, William Frederick (Viscount Dunlo), who married Belle? Bilton, a burlesque actress, succeeds/ to the title. [Richard Somerset (Le Poer Trench) wr« the fourth Earl of Cancarty, and sat in the House of Peers as Viscount Clancarty. Jffie was horn in 1834, and succeeded to tibe title in 1872. He was Honorary Colonel, of the Fourth Battalion Connaught Eangers.J

jEeoeived June 1, at 12.30 a.m, | A SCHOLARSHIP.

LONDON, Mat *3O.

Mr Gerald Baldwin has won - the Pollock Scholarship for Physiology, at St George’s Hospital. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. H.M. ships Ringarooma and Tauranga, two of the new cruiseirs for Australia, have left Malta for the Colonial station; and a third, the Katoomba, has arrived at Malta en route.

PRESIDENT HARRISON.

WASHINGTON, Mat 31.

A son of President Harrison declares that his father will decline reelection to the Presidency.