FL10409683

1864

Dec. 2nd Friday
Ladies general committee.
Mrs A went at 10 oclk [o'clock] to Police court to
identify the Refuge clothes taken by Nelly & to
state that the Matron would take her back
if she would promise to be a better girl.
Capt. Scott & Mr David Jones said unless
she returned to where she was well treated, she
must go to gail [jail] for at least three months,
so she came back. but so dirty, her stockings
sticking to her legs - sunburnt and
half lost.
she seems as though she had not had a wash or
slept since she left here, her eye lashes are gone
she says she "always looses them when she drinks."

Saturday 3rd.
The Stewardess Steamer
brought a girl from the "Maitland auxiliray" [auxiliary]
she is almost blind, she falsified her name in
order to induse [induce] Mrs Hills to pay her passage from
Maitland to Sydney and said she had neither father
nor Mother, she owns now that her father is
in Maitland gail [jail] for 14 days for drunkeness & her
Mother for 3 months. her little brother 5 years
old is there, for protection. Caroline Warden alias Cath. Davies
wrote to Mr Caldwell respecting the insecure walls.
Matron out on business from three oclk till 1/4 to 6 oclk.
Mrs D Royal Hote "has a good laundress" but [previous word deleted]
but promised Matron to bear us in mind &
would send sewing. Matron told her
they would be glad of stockings to darn or any
thing, however trifling or plain.