He married Theresa Glassey on 27 February 1884 in Adelaide, and that year began to use Newland as his surname.

While a conductor on the Broken Hill express, he and a fellow-conductor developed a gambling system that so impressed a group of mining magnates that they bankrolled a trip for the two to Monte Carlo.

[3] He was elected chairman of the District Council of Terowie, when after 13 years[2] he was obliged to resign from the railways.

He helped found in 1908 the Railway Officers' Association,[4] a trade union of which he was appointed general secretary, a position he held until his resignation in 1913.

He had several periods of convalescence due to ill health[1] and died in 1932 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, while his term was still unexpired.