THE BLACK POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 136, 10 June 1891, Page 2

THE BLACK POLICE.

By A. J. Vooan.

THRILLING ADVENTURES AMONG THE BLACKS IMf NORTHERN QUEENSLAND.

EYE-WITNESS of the HORRORS OI 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 firsb edition of an Australian story bearing the above title, and written by a well-known former resident in Auckland, has jusb arrived in New Zealand. The book is one of those works known as " novels wibh a purpose." In the course of his .ravels through the Australian wilds and those little traversed districts known as the "back blocks," the author was shocked by fc he atrocities perpetrated upon the Australian blacks. The story is an exceedingly interesting one. Its opening scene is laid in Auckland, where the hero, Claude Angland, first hears the intelligence of the death of his uncle, a noted Australian explorer.in North Queensland, from whom he receives a mysberious packet, containing a letter written in ink thab is only made visible by the application of chemicals. Some difficulty is experienced in discovering the key, bujs when found ib announces the discovery of a rich goldbearing reef and urges Claude to search for it, guided by a black boy who had been for many years the faithful companion of the dead explorer. Claud© ab once enters upon the dangerous and almost hopeless quest, and in the course of his search has many thrilling adventures. Tbe pictures of Australian lifo and scenery in a rising goldfield, upon oub stations, and in the unsrodden wilds, are admirably drawn, and the characters introduced interesb the reader and excibe sbrong feelings of sympathy or repulsion. One . gets a bebter and altogether more humane idea of bhe Australian black in bhis book than perhaps any other work on the subjecb published since Sir George Grey issued his narrative of Australian exploration fifty years ago. We have no doabb that the work, which is published in sbrong boards at the low price of two shillings, will meet with a very laree sale in this colony. Price, 2s, bo be had at all the booksellers'.'