[1] His job had taken him to Teetulpa early in the field's exploitation, and he sent eye-witness accounts to the South Australian Register, as well as The Argus and Sydney Morning Herald.
[2] In 1888 he went to Broken Hill, where he acted as local agent for the Register[3] then as a journalist with The Silver Age, and succeeded John Ward as editor,[4] living on Williams Street.
He succeeded the R. A. Varden as manager of the Boulder Perseverance mine, and held that position until he retired in 1923 and went to reside in Guildford until 1925, when he moved to Ventnor Avenue, West Perth.
has Susannah) Blood Hobbs, née Davies, ( – 26 December 1898) on 16 January 1879; he married again, to Anne Emily "Annie" Mackinnon ( – 12 April 1944) on 14 August 1900.
Their children included: Simpson, E. R. (Elizabeth R.) (1986), The Clelands of Beaumont : a history of 26 generations of a South Australian family, Beaumont Press, ISBN 978-0-9592458-1-3 Alfred Thomas Chandler, another geologist/journalist, who worked on J. M. Smith's Goldfield Courier and Golden Age then Coolgardie Miner