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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 7 March 1907, Page 24

.In the list of successful candidates in the teachers' examination, held last January, appear the names of two young ladies who were prepared and trained at the Convent of Mercy, Greymouth. They are the Misses Clara- F. Doms and Honora B. Trowland. Both have succeeded in passing the examination, for the Class D. certificate.

Owing to the continued- disarrangement ' of _the San Francisco mail service, the Acting-Postmaster-fgeneral "(Dr. Findlay) has directed that no mails for Great Britain shall be sent or received by -that route for the present. The Suez route is to foe used until further notice, unless specially good opportunities occur for sending mails by the direct or _ Vancouver -route. Subsidised connecting steamers to Sydney will- leave Wellington on the Bth inst., and fortnightly thereafter.

At the luncheon given by the proprietors of tihe 1 Lyttelton Times ' and ' Press ' to the members of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, at present in Christchurch, the Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. W. Hall-Jonies) said the finances of the Oolony were in'a wonderfully sound condition. He was not going to give them a mass of figures, but he could say this : that the finances of the Colony were in a better position for the first 10 months of this "year than they had been for the first '10 months of any previous year. The increases had been in larger proportion than in any previous year of the Colony's history : and he saw ,no reason why that prosperity which had existed, so long should not continue.