Complex sentence: He worked as a gardener and then a station hand in the country until returning to Brisbane for employment as a carter in an aerated waters factory, himself purchasing the ginger beer manufacturing business of John R. Palmer in Elizabeth Street, Brisbane in 1886.
Split into simpler sentences: He worked as a gardener and then a station hand in the country until returning to Brisbane for employment as a carter in an aerated waters factory. Marchant purchased the ginger beer manufacturing business of John R. Palmer in Elizabeth Street, Brisbane in 1886.