GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1745, 9 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Assooi&tion-Oofiyrlsht , .-4 ATHENIC AT HOBART. . Hobart, May 8. Tho Athenio has arrived hero from London. Sho sails for Wellington at seven o'clock on Friday morning. of her passengers were landed here, and 602. aro proceeding (o New Zealand. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. London, May 7. Tho Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, speaking at a. meeting of tho Church Missionary Society, eulogised its work in New South Wales. BRITISH TRADE. London, May 7. Board of Trado returns show that for tho month of April the value of imports increased by .£2,551,199, and exports by .£10,165,462, and that re-exports decreased by ,£25,338, as compared with tho figures for April of last year. COLONEL MEEKING'S DEATH. London, May 7. It was been discovered that LioutenantColonel Mocking, whoso body was recently exhumed, died natural causes. [Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Meeking died in March, T912, aged seventythree. Ho was a wealthy land-owner, aijd his estate was valued at over ,£1,000,000. Ho was married to his second wife (Marie Sybillo Dedous do Pierrefeu, Comtesse do Coligny) in 1907, and bequeathed her .£II,OOO annually. Tho exhumation was undertaken to allay suggestions of poisoning.] FRENCH TORPEDO FLOTILLAS. London, May 7. The Government has decided to concentrate torpedo flotillas in the English Channel at Cherbourg and Dunkirk, and will abolish tho bases at Lorient and La Pallico (Rochelle),