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Appendix E SMALL BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND
SUNDRY SERVICES AT MILPARINKA
E.1 Chemists.
H.B.Given, MPSA was an advertiser in the first issue of the Tibooburra
Telegraph on May 13,1890. He was also one of the group which posed for
photographs in front of Heuzenroder's Store in about 1883. He died at
Milparinka in 1893 and was therefor in business at Milparinka for at least
ten years.
There is not a large volume of information regarding Mr. Given, that which
is available being gleaned from his newspaper advertisements, his
obituary, and Coroner's inquest into his death.
Harry Given was a member of the Pharmaceutical Societies of Victoria and
New South Wales, and had been dispenser at the Bendigo Hospital for
four years (Sturt Recorder, 2 June 1893:2).
He arrived on the Goldfield in 1881 shortly after the Mount Browne and
Tibooburra Rushes, and apparently 'proved on many occasions of great
value to the sick and ailing, whom he often attended without the prospect
of fee or reward' (Sturt Recorder, 11 August 1893:2). The jury at the
inquest into his death on 8 August 1893 returned a verdict that 'the said
Henry Bennett Given came to his death at Milparinka on 7 August 1893,
from the effects of poison (to whit strychnine) taken by himself on the same
day while of unsound mind.' (Sturt Recorder, 11 August 1893:2).
Within twelve months 'H.L.Garriques, MPS (USA) Consulting and
Dispensing Chemist late of the Apothecaries Company Broken Hill, and
Thargomindah Hospital, Queensland' could be consulted at his rooms in
Loftus Street Milparinka, two doors below the 'Recorder office'. Mr.
Garriques specialised in dentistry - 'teeth extracted and stopped painlessly,
with or without cocaine'(Sturt Recorder, 7 December 1894:2), and was
married at Milparinka on 12 September 1897 (Sturt Recorder, 19
September 1897:2).
The Sturt Recorder reported that Harry Garriques left Milparinka on 15
January 1898, and expressed the hope that he would return when the
prospects for the quartz reefs at Warratta looked more promising. The
article implied that Mr. Garriques may also have had some knowledge of
the chemistry associated with recovery of gold from quartz (Sturt Recorder,
15 January 1898:3). I have found no record to indicate when his business
ceased.