Mr. William Henry Triggs, F.J.I., Editor of “The Press,” was born in Chichester, Sussex, England, in 1855, and adopted journalism as his profession at the age of seventeen. After six years' experience in England, chiefly in London and its neighbour hood, Mr. Triggs came out to New Zealand in 1878, under engagement to the Wellington “Post.” He succeeded Mr. C. Rous-Marten as sub-editor of that journal, and occupied the position until 1884. During that year —one of the most exciting in the political history of New Zealand—Mr. Triggs acted as Wellington correspondent of “The Press” (Christchurch), “Otago Daily Times” (Dunedin), “New Zealand Herald” (Auckland), the Melbourne “Argus,” and other journals. In January, 1885, he was appointed to succeed Mr. Edward Wakefield as editor of the “Timaru Herald,” but, the paper changing hands in April, 1886, he joined the editorial staff of “The Press,” with which he has been connected ever since. In 1894 Mr. Triggs visited England, and was the guest of the English Journalists' Institute at the annual conference held in Norwich and Cambridge that year. He also attended, as New Zealand's representative, the first International Congress of the Press held at Antwerp, at which many eminent journalists from all parts of Europe were present. In 1894 he was elected a member of the English Journalists' Institute, and in 1901 was elected to the Fellowship of the Institute—an honour at that time held by no other journalist in Australasia. Mr. Triggs has been a member of the New Zealand Institute from its foundation, and was elected president in 1901. On his return from England, in December, 1894, Mr. Triggs was appointed associate-editor of “The Press,” in conjunction with the late Mr. John Steele Guthrie. A few months later he was appointed sole editor, Mr. Guthrie devoting himself entirely to the duties of manager.