[3] They also appeared with Blyth Waterland and James Reading as the "Ethiopian Serenaders", reckoned as the first such combination in Australia.
Mrs Mason and her sister (died October 1863) had opened a "School for Young Ladies" on Edward Street,[7] but nothing further has been found.
By April 1869 he was conducting dancing lessons and quadrille assemblies at the Masonic Hall, Gympie, also touting for business as draftsman and wood engraver.
[17] In January 1870 he took over the licence for the Sportsman's Arms Hotel in Gympie,[18] but the transfer was cancelled a month later, as he had left for Maryborough, and taken the lease on that town's Theatre Royal.
[19] Around 1872 the family moved to Sydney, where George Mason became publican of the Horse and Jockey Hotel, at the corner of Hunter and O'Connell streets), proved insolvent 1874.