The 35-match tour of two host nations included no tests, but the side played provincial, city and academic sides, winning 27 matches.

The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

The tour started with a loss to Queensland but proceeded to storm through the next provincial fixtures, winning 11 games in a row.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

The tour will start in Hong Kong with a match against the Barbarians before moving on to Australia for the main tour featuring 6 provincial matches and 3 tests.

It was a critical and commercial success, and was revived in 1967 with a provincial tour before opening at London's Saville Theatre on 3 May 1967.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

The provincial tour was very brief, closing by early June 1887.

Between its two Christmas seasons in London, the children's production went on a provincial tour from 2 August 1880 to 11 December 1880.

The first English provincial tour opened in 1888, and from then on it was a fixture in the D ' Oyly Carte repertory, with at least one official touring company playing it somewhere in almost every season until the company's closure in 1982.

The operas in the company's first provincial tour included Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Tosca, Falstaff, Faust, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Il trovatore, and the first performances in English of Turandot.

A second tier tour was created for the 1978 – 79 season, taking the game to provincial centres around Australia and giving back-up players an opportunity to play regularly.

Stamp won a scholarship to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then performed in various provincial repertory theatres, most notably in a national tour of Willis Hall ’ s play The Long the Short and the Tall alongside another young actor Michael Caine.

Muldoon's critics, on the other hand, felt that he allowed the tour to go ahead in order for his National Party to secure the votes of rural and provincial conservatives in the general election later in the year, which Muldoon would go on to win.

A seventh play, Family Album, was added on the subsequent nine-week provincial tour.

' The Windmill's shows became a huge commercial success and the Windmill girls took their show on tour to other London and provincial theatres and music halls.

Their upcoming 2012 Season consists of an original musical ' STALKYARD HURTS: The 2012 End of the World Reunion Tour ', ' GODSPELL ' the classic broadway musical, and a provincial tour of their smash hit from last season ' ALECK BELL: A Canadian Pop Rock Musical '.

During the 1995 provincial campaign, de Jong cycled on a " leader's tour " from Ottawa to Sault Ste.

: The band goes on a tour playing pubs, clubs and dive bars around provincial Britain.

His next success was also for Curzon, The Balkan Princess ( 1910 ), which was little more than King of Cadonia with the sexes reversed, but it enjoyed a good London run and a long and wide provincial tour and foreign productions.

During this period Auckland took the Shield on tour to provincial unions that, mainly for financial reasons, would be unlikely to be able to mount a challenge for the trophy.

Following a tour of the province by Braithwaite ( who was a spellbinder orator ), the Patrons succeeded in nominating candidates in all but two of the province's ridings, in anticipation of the next provincial election.

It was a critical and commercial hit, and was revived in 1967, with a successful provincial tour, before opening at London's Saville Theatre on 3 May 1967.

To spare the provincial populations from excessive taxation and to save money, emperors began to employ units recruited from Germanic tribes.

During his reign, tribal organization began to erode as provincial government officials allowed land to change hands outside the traditional clan and tribal limits.

When this in turn was also shut down by Zhang's provincial administration, he then began publishing his articles in the popular local newspaper Ta Kung Po.

As the provincial highways and the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long-distance road journeys became more common, and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sited close to the main routes led to the growth of the motel concept.

Economic chaos also resulted ; with the Company now unable to enforce any monopoly, provincial towns began establishing printing presses, producing cheaper books than the London booksellers.

The Central Committee did this because the majority of its members were of provincial background, or were working in the provinces ; because of this, these members were the first to feel the pinch when the economy began to stagnate during Lê Khả Phiêu's rule.

Another source of anatomy teaching began with the foundation of many medical schools ( particularly within the provincial medical schools ) and the medical museums found within them.

Falun Gong's response to the suppression in China began in July 1999 with appeals to local, provincial and central petitioning offices in Beijing.

In the early 1990s the provincial government began to examine duplication of municipal services in Nova Scotia.

There are strong indications that the government of King Olaf began writing secure provincial laws to a greater extent.

The Quiet Revolution began with the enacted Liberal provincial government of Jean Lesage, who was elected in the June 1960 provincial election and marked the end of Premier Maurice Duplessis ' reign, known by some as the Grande Noirceur ( Great Darkness ) but by others as the last champion of a holy and wholesome Quebec.

After the establishment of a provincial system, Chulalongkorn began the census to get the statistics of all men available to the government.

Since 1993, COPE has nominated candidates for all civic offices ( Mayor, City Councillor, School Board Trustee, and Parks Commissioner ) but its closer affiliation with an incumbent provincial NDP government and inability to negotiate a deal with the Greens, who began siphoning votes in increasing numbers, resulted in flagging performance.

When the main NLF operation began the next morning, the offensive was countrywide in scope and well coordinated, with more than 80, 000 communist troops striking more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns, and the southern capital.

Whether by accident or design, the first wave of attacks began shortly after midnight on 30 January as all five provincial capitals in II Corps and Da Nang, in I Corps, were attacked.

Feelings about him rapidly deteriorated as he began to implement the various acts, including the Boston Port Act, which put many people out of work, and the Massachusetts Government Act, which formally dissolved the provincial assembly.

During the war, however, the political wing began to gain momentum, and at the 1919 UFA convention it was decided that UFA candidates would contest the next provincial election.

The decision behind the selection of Rup chang nai thong nam, meaning Image of an Elephant in a Body of Water, as the provincial seal was because this was the origin of Mae Hong Son's founding, which first began with Lord Kaeo of Ma being sent to capture elephants for the Lord of Chiang Mai ( 1825 – 1846 ).

After the incident, Peng began to think seriously about leaving the service of his provincial warlord army.

A passenger tramway began operating on 16 June 1909, making Rockhampton the only provincial city in Queensland to have a street tramway.

Work began in late 2005 under a provincial collective bargaining agreement and has included modifications to rail and road crossings as well as transmission line spans, upgrades to inlet control structures and fire protection, increased elevation of existing dikes ( including the Brunkild dike ), and the widening of the entire floodway channel.

Cassidy resigned as leader after a poor performance in the 1981 provincial election, and a movement began to draft Rae as his replacement.

The provincial government held its first meeting at Zhongxing New Village on November 27, 1957, and the provincial administration building began use on July 1, 1957.