J. S. Reid

James Reid and Eliza Reid's children were:[3] He served an apprenticeship as printer with F. T. Rayner of the Port Denison Times and began his journalistic career in October 1870 founding the Ravenswood Miner of Ravenswood, Queensland, site of North Queensland's first significant gold strike.

In December 1880, making a break from goldfields, Reid founded the Western Grazier in Wilcannia then the bi-weekly Silver Age in Silverton, shortly moving it to Broken Hill.

[7] His press printed the first prospectus for the original Broken Hill Proprietary promoted by the "14 syndicate", and he is reputed to have had a hand in its authorship.

This was the first of many privately owned and run railway projects in which he had a major interest: After the Mount Mulligan mine disaster, he retired from business, and died shortly after.

He was a successful pastoralist, owner of Tolarno and Tarcoon stations on the River Darling and built a mansion in Magill, South Australia which he named "Rostrevor" after a seaside resort in Ireland.

A company "Rostrevor Estate Limited" was formed the same year to purchase from Reid another 633 acres (256 ha) for subdivision for housing, parks and gardens.

"Duneira" was the property of Suetonius Henry Officer and his widow, then purchased by Edward Drewett Dyer (c. 1836 – 10 December 1889).