A couple of more snippets...
Ship Kingston
Barque, built 1828 in Hull, 279 tonns, Owner Capper and Co, London.
TROVE. 5th.May 1847.
By an accidental omission of our shipping reporter.
The names of the passengers by the Kingston were omitted.
They were Mr E. Freeman, Mr Fred. Dodd, and Mr Jas.
Dodd. A fourth passenger, Mr Chas. Frith, died on the
passage.
As I said before I can't find any voyages of the Kingston after 1847 so it may have been sold or scrapped in Adelaide.
—How "Dingley Dell' Derived Its N'ame.—
Early in the year' 1862 Mr. George Randall
arrived in the district and took up
the land surrogunding Dingley Dell, and
it was for him that the cGttage, immortalized
by its association with the poet,
was erected. The actual builders of the
house- Mr. Thompson could not remember.
There were then only two fences between
Moorak and Port MacDonnell, and in order
to safeguard the stock he had purchased
Mr. Randall had been hobbled aitd belled.
The stock were mustered twice a day.
The country surrounding the cottaige was
then, even more so than now, a sylvan
paradise in which guyns and wattles ran
riot, and it was from -the music of the birds
in the trees, mingled with the tinkling of
the be Ha of the hobbled sto&, that the
name ""Dingley Dell" was derived.
