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taking, estimated to cost £120,000, was designed by Mr. Oswald Brown, who spent three months in Pernambuco in 1884. Although this place is said to be one of the healthiest in Brazil, yellow fever occasionally prevails, and it was to this that Mr. Jenkinson succumbed at the early age of thirty. He had fully intended to return to settle in South Australia, as he had made many friends during his sojourn in this country.

John Frame,

A well-known South Australian agriculturalist in the Mount Barker district. Born at Glasgow, Scotland, April 28, 1799; arrived in Adelaide, August 14, 1839. He first turned his attention to agriculture in 1843, when he, in conjunction with Mr. Allan Bell and the late Mr. Patterson, took up three sections at the Bald Hills, near Mount Barker, and began the cultivation of wheat. He was very successful, and five years later removed to a larger farm, which he occupied at the time of his death. The land being admirally adapted for the successful growth of all kinds of cereals. Mount Barker wheat soon won a name for itself in the market, and ultimately a sample of it sent to England by Mr. Frame gained the gold medal at the first London International Exhibition in 1851. From that date he has received many valuable awards from Commissioners of British and Foreign Exhibitions and at various Agricultural Shows in this and the neighbouring colonies. He was a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of South Australia from its foundation, and hardly a Show was held under its auspices at which he has not taken one or more prizes. His long and useful labours were recognised in his being made a life-member of the Society. In 1853 he was, in conjunction with Mr. John Dunn and others, appointed a member of the first Mount Barker District