The ship Flying Cloud, 2500 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. T. M. Mackay, Son, and Co., sailed on the 23rd ult., from Gravesend for Queensland, Captain John L. Owen commander, Surgeon-Superintendent Dr. Paynter, assisted by Mrs. Barr, matron. The Flying Cloud is the eighty-ninth vessel that has sailed on the land-order system of emigration, under the immediate direction of the Queensland Government. She contains 247 souls, divided into paying, assisted, and free passengers, and consisting of eighty-two members of families, ninety-nine single men, and fifty-seven single females.

Source: The Illustrated London News, Vol. LIV, Feb. 6, 1869, p.142