Cellier returned to Australia in 1888 to conduct "Dorothy" and a revival of his earlier work, "Charity Begins at Home", and made a final brief visit there for health reasons in early 1891, together with Stephenson. His last comic operas, "Doris" (1889, with Stephenson) and "The Mountebanks" (with Gilbert, produced in January 1892, a few days after the composer's death), were both modestly successful. Also after Cellier's death, Rutland Barrington used some of his music in his 1902 adaptation of "Water Babies". Often in ill health throughout his life, Cellier was unable to finish "The Mountebanks", and Ivan Caryll completed the score. A reviewer of the 2018 recording of "The Mountebanks" commented: "There is a free-flowing style to Cellier’s compositions, with fine lyrical detail and sumptuous orchestration with which he provides a wide variety of musical effects."