GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BENNY POSTAGE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, January 19. Viscount AVohner admits that he and the Postmaster-General are favourable to Imperial penny postage. The initial loss would he six millions sterling, which the Chancellor could not balance. Nevertheless, he thought penny postage woud be restored as soon as conditions righted themselves. “ 11.0. P.” JUBILEE. LONDON, January 19. Mr Baldwin was the chief guest at a luncheon celebrating the jubilee oi the “ Hoy’s Own Paper.” Senders oi congratulations included Mr Morgan, the first office boy now living in Australia. HINKLER’S GOLD MEDAL. LONDON, January 19. Hinkler has received a shoal ol congratulatory cables from Australia, upon his winning the International Gold Medal. REMARKABLE STORY OF FRENCH DESERTER. PARTS, Jan. 19. Madame Grappe was acquitted, though she admitted she fatally shot her husband. She told a remarkable story-during the course oi the trial, in which she said Grappe served in the ti cliches in the early part of the war. but when on leave in Paris he had not the courage to return to the front, and she helped him to disguise himself as a woman, and ho thus spent ten years in Snain, letting his hair grow and cultivating a contralto voice. He only returned to Franco after the amnesty was granted in 1924. Grappe, resuming men’s dotes, lived a life of debauchery, while she earned a living in a factory, necently, being terrified at his violent drunken behaviour, she snatched a revolver and shot him. “I was mad, but I was afraid when I shot him. Even now 1 love him, as all women did. He always seemed strangely to fascinate , WOineil.” - . .