THE BLACK POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 145, 20 June 1891, Page 2

THE BLACK POLICE.

By A. J. VocfAN.

THRILLING ADVENTURES AMONG THE BLACKS IM NORTHERN QUEENSLAND.

EYE-WITNESS op 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 firsb edition of an Australian story bearing the above title, and written by a well-known former resident in Auckland, has just arrived in Now Zealand. The book is one of those works known as "novels with a purpose." In the course of hia .ravels through the Australian wild? and t hose little-traversed district's known as the " back blocks," the author was shocked by fc he atrocities perpetrated upon the Australian blacks.

Tho story is an exceedingly interesting one. Its opening scene ia laid in Auckland, where the hero, Claude Angland, first hears the intelligence of fche death of his uncle, a noted Australian explorer,in North Queensland, from whom he receives a myetarious packet, containing a letter written in ink thae is only made visible by the application of chemicals. Some difficulty is experienced in discovering tho key, bufc when found it 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. Claude at once enters upon tho dangerous and almost hopeless quest, and in the course of his search has many thrilling adventures. The pictures of Australian life and ecenery in a rising goldfiold, upon out stations, and in the untrodden wilds, are admirably drawn, and the characters introduced interest the readei 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 perhaps any other work on the subject published since Sir George Grey issued his narrative of Australian exploration fifty years ago. Wβ have no donbt that the work, which is published in strong boards at the low price of two shillings, will meet with a very large sale in this colony. Price,2s, to be had at all tho booksellers'.