Hunter River Gazette - From our Reporter -  There are a number of women assignable in the factory here at present, and among them many laundresses. Should any servants of this description be required by families, the present is a good time to apply for them. Free or ticket of leave men, desirous of entering into the matrimonial tie, will also have a full house to choose from. From the crowded state of the wards we have no doubt many of the inmates would gladly avail themselves of an opportunity to exchange their present state of single blessedness, for the chance of contributing to the happiness of any member of the masculine sex, who will take the necessary steps to gain their affections Many of them we have no doubt judging from their age and appearance, possess the sentiments of  Milton’s Eve.

“They would be woo’d and not unsought be won,”

although we have reason to believe in their case equally as in that of the ‘Mother of mankind’ the courtship would neither be a protracted nor a difficult process. The Hunter River Gazette 12 February 1842