PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 315, 3 July 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death occurred at the Old People'* Home on Monday of Mrs. M. A. Dames, an inmate who came from the Eltham district. The passengers to Onehunga by the liarawa last night included the Rev. J. Wilkinson and Mr. Felix McGuire, of Okaiawa. A cablegram from London states that Allan McDougall, New Zealand Rhodes scholar, has been awarded first-class honors in English and Literature. The three retiring members of the Taranaki Education Board have been reelected unopposed. They are: Messrs. A. Morton (North Ward), J. Young (West Ward), and R. Masters (East Ward). The New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers' Association is about to present Sir Joseph Ward, late Postmaster-Gen-eral, with a picture that i 3 to coat £IOO. Sir Joseph Ward is to select the picture himself from the Baillic collection when he is in Christchurch. The death is announced at Suva (Fiji)' of Mr. Humphrey Berkeley, a wellknown barrister in the group. Mr. Berkeley was born in 1860, at St. Kitts, Leeward Islands. West Indies. He was a son of Mr. Thomas Berkeley, C.M.G., president of the Federal Council of that colony, and a younger brother of Sir Henry Berkeley, Kt., late Chief Justiceof Fiji, now Attorney-General of Hong Kong. Mr. James Triggs, father of Mr. G. R. Triggs, Conciliation Commissioner, died yesterday morning in Christchurch, at the advanced age of 87 years. He was a native of Portsmouth," England. On coming to the Dominion about fifty years ago he settled in Christchurch. Later he went to the Thames goldfields, but subsequently returned to Christchurch, and started business as a bootmaker. Latterly he has lived in retirement. He leaves a family of six sons and two daughters. Mr. W. O'Donnell, son of Mr. M. J. O'Donnell, of Taranaki, has -distinguished himself at the annual sports of St. Edmund's Catholic College, Ware, England, where he has for some time been "a theological student. He won the lonir jump, 220 yards, 440 yards, and halfmile, and was second in the 100 yards, being beaten just on the tape. The winner did the distance in 10 l-ssec. He was also second for the points prize, a handsome silver cup. As the college has hundreds of students, Mr. O'Donuell's success is all the more commendable.