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 Council, and was also instrumental in starting the Mount Barker Agricultural Society. Mr. Frame was just the stamp of colonist required here, a practical farmer, who knew how to make the best of the land at his disposal. His death took place in July 1885, at the advanced age of 86 years.

William Bickford, RRIVED in the colony in 1839 with the intention of starting sheepfarming. Before leaving his home in Devonshire, England, he had received glowing and Utopian accounts respecting South Australia, but on arrival failed to find the realization of his hopes. The high prices asked by owners of sheep and cattle caused him to turn his attention to the business he had followed in the home country—a chemist—and he sent to England for a stock of drugs and other requisites and then opened the first druggist's shop in Adelaide. He was eminently successful, and very many of the preparations which he introduced are made up and sold to this day. At the early age of thirty-five years, after three days' illness, he died, leaving a wife and five children. After his decease the business was carried on for some years by the widow, when it ultimately passed into the hands of her sons, William and Harry Bickford, who have extended it until it is known as the leading wholesale druggist and sundry firm in South Australia, under the style and title of A. M. Bickford & Sons.

Ulysses Bagot, ROTHER of the late Hon. J. T. Bagot, arrived in the colony in 1851, and was for upwards of twenty-eight years engaged in various positions in the Civil Service. Died November 8, 1882, aged 62 years.