[2] Following a concert at St James's Hall, London, she lost her voice due to congestion of the lungs, and on medical advice she left for Australia in 1871, settling in Melbourne.
[4] Those two performed together again, in the Intercolonial Music Festival or Exhibition of 1872–73[5] and in Robert Sparrow Smythe's "Exhibition Concert Company" whose members included Mrs Smythe, Miss Christian, Samuel Lamble (basso), F. H. Du Boulay[6] (concertina) and C. Huenerbein (piano) Christian toured with the petite violinist Jenny Claus in 1872, and with Arabella Goddard in 1873.
Then, contracted to Robert Sparrow Smythe, she sang in various quartets, generally with the tenor Armes Beaumont, either Rosina Palmer or Frances Saville for soprano, and one or other of various baritones or basses.
After a farewell concert at the Melbourne Town Hall,[25] she left for Sydney and joined the staff of St Vincent's College, Potts Point, controlled by the Sisters of Charity.
Singers known to have received training from Christian include Kathleen Bourke,[14] Molly de Gunst, Gertrude Concannon, Ella Caspers, Kate Rooney, Carrie Lanceley,[c] Zillah Harrison, and Eugene Boland and, notably, Helen Mitchell (better known as Nellie Melba).