["Shipping", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 15 January 1884, page 6]

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COASTERS OUTWARDS.--January 14.

Little Pet, tor Wollongong; Beagle, for Beagle Bay; Meeinderry, for Shoalhaven; Daisy, for Port Stephens; Ettie, for Newcastle.

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notes:

This is the first press reference I could find. Meeinderry just arrived from Glasgow, presumably.