Complex sentence: He returned to Victoria the next year to write a series of articles for the "Age" but in 1864 was appointed by the South Australian Government clerk-in-charge, accountant, and postmaster, of the first expedition to colonise the Nqrthern Territory.
Split into simpler sentences: He returned to Victoria the next year to write a series of articles for the "Age". In 1864 he was appointed by the South Australian Government as clerk-in-charge, accountant, and postmaster of the first expedition to colonise the Nqrthern Territory.