THE BLACK POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 134, 8 June 1891, Page 4

THE BLACK POLICE.

By A. J. Vooan

THRILLING ADVENTURES AMONG THE BLACKS IST NORTHERN QUEENSLAND.

EYE-WITNESS of the HORRORS OB SLAVERY CARRIED ON AMONG AUSTRALIANS UNDER THE EYE of BRITISH RULE.

TWO ROMANTIC ESCAPES.

A RACE FOR, LIFE.

HOW SLAVES ARE SHOT DOWN.

AN AWFUL DISAPPOINTMENT.

A STRANGE LOVE ADVENTURE.

THE GRAVE AT LAST.

FATE'S AVENGING HAND

A LAST FAREWELL.

The first edition of an Australian story bearing the abovo title, and written by a well-known former resident in Auckland, has just arrived in New Zealand. The book is one of thoso works known as " novete with a purpose." In the course of hia .ravels through the Australian wilds and those little traversed districts known as the "buck blocks," the author was shocked by tho atrocities perpetrated upon the Australian blacks. 1

The sbory is an exceedingly interesting one. Its opening scene is laid in Auckland, where the hero, Claude Angland, first hears the intelligence of tho death of his uncle, a noted Australian explorer.in North Queensland, from whom he receives a mysterious packet, containing a letter written in ink that is only made visible by the application of chemicals. Some difficulty is experienced in discovering the key, but when found ib announces the discovery of a rich goldbearing reef and urges Claude to search tor ib, guided by a black boy whe had been for many years the faithful companion of the dead explorer. Claude at once enters upon tho dangerous and almost hopeless quest, and in the course of hia search has many thrilling adventures. The pictures of Australian life and scenery in a rising goldfield, upon out stations, and in the unsrodden wilds, are admirably drawn, and the characters introduced interest the reader and excite strong feelings of sympathy or repulsion. One gets a better and altogether more humane idea of the Australian black in this book than perhapa any other work on the subject published since Sir George Grey issued his narrative of Australian exploration • fifty years ago. We have no doubt that tho work, which is published in strong boards at the iow price of two shillings, will meet with a very lar<.'o sale in this colony. Pijce,2a, to be had al all tho booksellers'.