WORKING HER PASSAGE.

Inangahua Times, Issue 94, 18 September 1878, Page 2

WORKING HER PASSAGE.

. Captain Batch, °IJ}*°. s]ii » Strathlo", belonging to tlio Wfirofctnr Lino, plying holween London nnd ' Australia, accompanied by ft young Indy of übout eighteen yoors of age, nnd of considerable porsonal attractions, applied to tho migistrnto at tho Tlinmna Polio Courb, n Tow days or", under tlio following cirtuimsfcnncos. It upi^nred from tlio sU'oincno made by tho onptnin that tho young lady joined liis vessel at Sydney, ns an apprentice. Sho was then drowsed in masculine alliro, nnd roprcscntcd herself to bo a runnnwny apprentice from another vessel, nnd she Rtatocl that she wished to get back to London, nnd for that purposo offered hor services to him. When tho ship loft Sydnoy tho new hand did duty as well as oould bo desired, und boonmo raUu>r a favorite with tho ship's company. When tho vessel had beon out üboufc forty days n communication was mtdo to tho captnin which roused his suspicions, nnd ho nocor« dingly tnxod ll»3 supposed apprentice with being of n different sex to whnt ho hnd reproiiented himself to b?. 'Pho would* bo tnr thoreupon confessed that sho was n fomnlo. bbtnc fomile clothing wng procurod, nnd tho middy was placed in apart, monls more suitublo than Iho forooastlc. Captnin Batch now slated that to put himself tight; with his ownors ho wished Jo know whothor tho young Inly could mako n statutory declaration as to how sho carno on board his ship. Mr Lusliington so id that ho did not think that wns nocossnry. No doubt if Captain B'tch went to them nnd explained tho nfl'iir it wou'd bo nil right. Tho Cupfuin thnnlod his worship and withdrew. It is stated that tho young ludy is tho doughler of rcapoetublo pavonts who rosiilo in tbe north (I Irolund. Ifc has not transpired how sho onmo to ho ot' Sydney, Messrs Georpio Thompson and Co, iho owners of tho Strathdon, have kindly undertaken to send tho interesting young ' middy ' home to hor parents, who rosido near Dublin. Sho snys that about fourteen months ago being thon only seventeen yours of nc;o, sho took it m her hoad to go to Australia. Sho wont out ns an emigrant to Queensland, whoro sho obtainod a situation ns barmaid. Wliilo thoro slio received a lotterfrom hor mother, borc{injf hor to relurn home, nnd orchsing monr»y to pay lior passage With this fiho bought a suit of mnsculino attiro and oblnino I a situation ns seoond stoward on board a slenmor running short trips bo« twren Newcasllo and Sydney. Sho continued there two or threo nionf.h*, and then sho thought sho shoul 1 like to come | to England, nnd that sho might as woll work her passago orer os piy for it, She sought nnd obtained n situation on board tho Srrnthdori,— TFomo Nmvs, July 18.