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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1925, Page 4

ST PETER'S DOME TO RE LIT IT. FIRST TIME FOR 55 YEARS. ROME, .May 17. Next Sunday night. in accordant e with the desire of Pope Pius ,Y I, ther - will he revived one of the most spectacular and characteristic traditions .of Rome—the illumination of the great dome of .Michelangelo, in honour of the canonisation of the French Carmelite nun. Sister Teresa do Jesus. This splendid spectacle has not been seen in Rome since the night of June 29, IS7O. It involves an expenditure of about £1250 and the necessity of employing hundreds of workmen to accomplish the illumination. The effect will he produced not by the use of electric lights, hut by a strict adherence to the old custom of using oil and Inigo candles, which give a startling vitality to the illumination as the lights flicker in the wind. There will lie 500 and 2500 torches. As the first hurst, of illumination is almost instantaneous, it is necessary to omiiMy 000 men to obtain this startling effect. The men are paid the equivalent of about 5s each, and are given a guarantoo in case of nerident. HEAT WAVE, SCICIDES. LONDON. June 17. Returning a verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity at the inquest at Windsor on Frederick (leorgc Oarreit. 54, of Ratchet, who drowned himself, the coroner expressed the opinion that it, was probably due to the heat. Worried through the heal wave making him feel his work was not giving satisfaction. Thomas l’aile.v, aged 70. of Rolh-ston. Rurton-ou-Trent. lav down in front of a train and was decapitated. The corner said that everyone fell like Bailey during the heat wave. A yor-

diet of suicide was returned.