O'Loughlin, Timothy , Builder, Boulcott Street, Wellington. Mr. O'Loughlin, who is connected with some of the oldest identities of the Empire City, was born in Wellington about forty-nine years ago. He is the youngest of five children, all born in the Capital City, and his sister, Mrs. David Bell (vide page 766), claims to have been the first white girl born in Wellington. His father, also Mr. Timothy O'Loughlin, was drowned in Wellington Harbour some forty years ago, and his mother is still living in the enjoyment of fairly good health at the age of eighty years. Mr. O'Loughlin was married to a daughter of Mr. Jackson, who arrived in Auckland with the first detachment of the 65th Regiment; his mother-in-law landed in Wellington from the second ship that arrived in Port Nicholson. Mrs. O'Loughlin, junr., remembers the time when the water went up as far as the old Evening Post, corner. Among the treasures that she prizes are photographs of the first Government House erected in Wellington (vide page 21), and a pretty view of the Hutt Road from Lambton Quay, then known as “The Beach,” a designation which is still applied to it by many old hands (vide page 558). Mr. O'Loughlin's son, Mr. George O'Loughlin, was for some time the proprietor of the Central Hotel, Otaki, and is at the time of writing (March, 1897) enjoying a trip to the Old Country.

Mr. J. K. Warburton (vide page 644) was appointed Controller and Auditor-General on the 1st of September, 1896, Mr. J. C. Martin taking up the duties of Public Trustee.

Mr. J. C. Martin, who is referred to on page 470 as Stipendiary Magistrate, succeeded Mr. J. K. Warburton as Public Trustee, on the 1st of September, 1896.

Mr. J. C. Hanna, who is referred to on page 646 as secretary of the Metropolitan Building Society, is succeeded by Mr. C. A. Ewen.

Mr. C. A. Ewen, Secretary of the Metropolitan Permanent Building and Investment Society, succeeded Mr. J. C. Hanna in the management of that institution, and as Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company at Wellington (vide page 523).

Club Hotel (Robert Darroch, proprietor), Wellington. (See page 661.)

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Albert Hotel (David J. Kenny, proprietor), Wellington. See page 661).

Luke, S. and Co., Limited, Engineers, Shipbuilders, and Boilermakers, Manners Street, Wellington. Reference is already made to this progressive company on page 681 of this volume, and a personal notice of Mr. C. M. Luke, one of the directors, appears under the heading of “Ex-Mayors,” together with an engraving, on page 290. Pictures of the works (with a group of workmen), and of the interior of the blacksmiths' and boiler makers' shop, and portraits of Mr. Samuel Luke and Mr. John P. Luke, the other two directors, are given herewith.

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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.