[1] He was in March 1864 appointed JP for South Australia, also to be Surgeon and Protector of Aborigines attached to the Northern Territory expedition[2] a party of 40 under B. T. Finniss, which on 29 April left for Adam Bay, Northern Territory on the barque Henry Ellis with the task of choosing and surveying a site for a principal town to be called Palmerston.
[4] Goldsmith tendered his resignation, which was accepted immediately, and left Adam Bay aboard Bengal for Surabaya in company with surveyor Pearson, and storekeeper King, both on sick leave.
F. Roberts, W. Read (killed by a crocodile while working on the Overland Telegraph), William Smith, James Gilbert, R. J. Ware, G. F. Edmunds and Firmin Deacon (who both had arrived by South Australian) a few weeks earlier, and J. R. Atkinson and G. T. Cottrell.
[8] Around 1869 he developed a form of paralysis, and as a chronic invalid, was forced to abandon his profession, and died in the Adelaide Hospital after taking a lethal dose of chlorodyne.
They had two sons: His widow, Emma Goldsmith, née Hallett, married again, to Alexander Brodie (c. 1831 – 24 November 1907) of Morphett Vale on 16 February 1883.