[3] A feature of the magazine was theatre reviews contributed by James Edward Neild as "Christopher Sly".
[4] The proprietors of the Argus launched The Examiner in 1857, with Bright as its first editor, and for which Neild contributed theatre criticism.
He returned to Melbourne around January 1869 in poor health, both physically and mentally, and was admitted to the Lunatic Asylum.
[5] Bright was correspondent for newspapers in Sydney and Hobart, also Dunedin and Invercargill in New Zealand, and for the last two years of his life he edited The Evening Star at Sandhurst (Bendigo).
He was taken ill to the Bendigo Hospital on Thursday evening, and died rather suddenly on Saturday morning.