Malachi Cahill married Marie Riedle in 1885[1] and they had five children, Vaughan 1886, Alice 1888, Arthur 1889, Xavier 1891 and Cecily 1896.

[4] He gave evidence that he had been in business for seven years, he employed 20 hands whose hours of work were 9am to 6pm in winter; 9am to 7pm in summer with the exception of Wednesdays with 2pm close and Saturdays 9am to 10pm.

He seems to have had continuing success until a little before the death of his wife in 1998 at which time advertising in the newspaper reduces and in September 1899 all his stock is liquidated.

[8] He was declared insolvent in March 1900 with the reason given as a death in the family, poor health and a drop off of business.

[11] He was also involved in planning the 1880 Easter Fair Committee Cahill as the elected ANA representative.

[13] He was also a member of Quick's election committee in 1901, supporting his successful bid for a parliamentary seat in the first federal parliament.

[15] In these early years of the ANA branches grew quickly in the well populated and wealthy gold fields.

[18] At the 1884 ANA Conference in Melbourne, Cahill proposed that each Australian Colonial Government co-operatively set aside some day on the calendar for a national annual holiday.

On 6 June 1905 a police constable found him in a pool of blood having sustained several deep cuts to his head, he took him to hospital where he was given several stitches.

[25] After these events Cahill became a manager for Perfect Tailoring Company, where he worked until his death from heart failure in 1916.