Lethaby and Co. (George John Lethaby), Umbrella Manufacturers, 26 Willis Street, Wellington. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Branch at Greymouth. This is the original umbrella-manufacturing and repairing, china and glass-mending and rivetting, razor and scissor-grinding business established in New Zealand—the name Lethaby and the word “umbrellas” being almost synonyms in the Colony. Mr. Lethaby was born in 1851 in South Morton, Devonshire, England, his father being in the business under review. The subject of this notice came to Dunedin by the ship “Crystal McCausland” in 1872, and after working at his business for eight years he opened branches successively in Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, Greymouth and Wellington. Mr. Lethaby was married in 1868, and has three children and many near relatives in the same business in New Zealand. He had ten years' experience with Mr. H. W. Emeny, well known in this line in Exeter, England. In his shop in Willis Street, Mr. Lethaby has 250 different samples of umbrella sticks, and keeps a well-assorted stock of all requisites in his trade. The reputation the name enjoys in New Zealand is a guarantee of the quality of the work executed.