DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 30 May 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SUICIDE WITH SHOT GUN. [Per Press Association.] Christehurch, May 30. A elderly man named Thomas Barson committed suicide at Hororata ■ yesterday with a shot gun. THE PAINTERS' DISPUTE. _. • New Plymouth, May 30. Ihe Conciliation Council made an award this morning in the painters' dispute. The award is for one year, and fixes the minimum wage at Is '3d per. hour in a 44-hour week, no work on holidays, arid no overtime to be permitted, nor. any piecework, and ajiy journeyman working on hie own account will cease to belong to the union; preference to be given to unionists.

PETITIONING FOR DIVORCE. A JUDGE'S REBUKE. v _ Auckland, May 30. lA scathing rebuke was administered by Mr Justice Edwards in the Supreme Court when giving judgment in a divorce suit in which Robertson Henderson petitioned for a.decree nisi against Emily Jeanie Henderson, on the grounds of misconduct, Thomas George Derenzy being named as corespondent. The Judge quoted from a letter written by petitioner to resi pondent, in .which he stated he was financially embarrassed, and remarks ed: "The epistle was practically ;i written i license for the woman to misccmdiuot herself with co-respondent for, petitioner's own' financial ends." The decree was refused without costs. THE CAWTHRON OBSERVATORY. Wellington, May SO. With reference to tho 'telegram stating that Mr Cawthron had been approached,to induce him to change the site of the solar. physics observatory from Nelson to Wellington, Miss Mary Proctor states that there was absolutely no foundation ior the rumour. She states that she is in daily correspondence with Mr Gibbs, the president of the Nelson Institute, who is the representative of Mr Cawthron, and from his letters, she finds that all arrangements are going on on the basis originally intended! Miss Proctor adds that from her knowledge of Mr Cawthron, she is satisfied that, there never was any grounds for the belief that he would likely change his mind, or even that he had been asked to do so. The committee composed of four members of the astromical branch of the Philosophical Society of Wellington, viz., Professor Adams astronomer), Dr. Hector, Rev. Father Kennedy, and Professor Laby, had been holding meetings to settle the data necessary for the proposed Cawthron Solar Observatory, and their report will soon •be published.