WHO for over thirty years was a bookseller in Adelaide, was born in London, and arrived here in 1839. From a small beginning he worked up one of the largest businesses in South Australia, and retired on a competency. He was an accomplished church organist, and his services were often in request. Mr. Platts was universally liked for his genial temperament and bonhomie, and his death, which took place at Mitcham, near Adelaide, on November 14, 1871, was much lamented.