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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 213, 8 September 1891, Page 6

J . _ A- STORY OF MODERN AUSTRALIA. 1 « Daily Graphic," March i 7. 1891. , "Ly ttelton Times." " Chrlstchurch Telegjmfrh » M&y &, •If the book were not written with so "' The Black Police. '-Can it be possible /'No Australian writer who not? much circumstantial detail we would that in these days of grace—for the story is wielding the pen in London or the Colonie* ..■illinHv believe' that something had been written of the present time-that such has been so successful in the choice of a, Ac Hto sensat on It is haSi to realise things, such horrors, as Mr. Vogan describes theme as a New Zealander who has recently that the wholesale massacres of blacks- with revolting relish, can' happen in a found a London pubhsher-we mean Mr, •nen, women, and children-here described, civilised British community!' Arthur James Vogan. . . The book an- wholly accurate, or that licenses are is undoubtedly written with a purpose. Its wanted to men to shoot 'Myalls' (wild — leading idea is to illustrate the manner ny Slacks) on sight; or even that a native , which the Australian blacks are shot dowa ■boy , can bo Sought in Queensland towns : - «Christchureh Press." b 7 <*«" squatters, especially in the back for a sovereign or two. Mr. Vogan, dating y „ _ ... , districts of Queensland. The author m from New Zealand, states that F the scenes " ' The Black Police. -If onl y f £-third the brief preface to his readers, says,. I ..T.ri mini inoirlpiits fmnlovpd arechiellv the °* the scenes depicted m the book by mr. nave endeavoured to depict some of the S«Kf y iS Vogan. are true it is time such a reproach b porti of Apia's shadow life] iC ;S^ r c^ i » dOr are frOm Per ' "• S S^hffifthe^Kfnly t-onToS ' J x ' [ with a good deal of power. The discovery vations and experiences ; the remainder "DaiJy Chronicle" Appii 15,1891. b y Claude Angland of the rival to Mount from perfectly reliable sources.' The writer ' ' Morgan is a wonderfully clever piece of word gives a brief ske tch of Auckland city, and "To neveral colonial stories which have painting; the scenery and the weird sur- then transports his hero to Queensland for recently been published must now be added roundings of the cavern being described the purpose of finding out the last resting* • The black Police ; a Story of Modern very powerfully. . . . ' The Black p] a ce of his uncle, aifexplorer, and also ta Australia,' by A. J. Vogan (London, Police' is well worth perusal." discover, by means of a last letter from him t i-Tutchinson & Co.). It is an attempt to . a famous gold mine. This quest brings him' depict some of the obscurer portions of ' into contact with the squatter life of the Australia's shady side, and the scenes and outlying district of Queensland, and/also •rain incidents employed are chiefly the "Otagro Times," June 6,1891. makes him an eye witness of the brutal '•esult of personal observations and expen- efT , ~ ._ _~ • _ +fio , P manner in which the black population ara S, Tk St ° ry iS n**"*" o **' ToJ s he cS' a r Q t e \Tnd^nd Un tt being annihilated in the interns of civilly JiCltln& - horrors in Mrs. Stowe's book are hardly *™ n an l w ? altb .- c ar f to he }™ ve Mr * «London Morning Advertiser," more horrible than the facts recorded here, Yoga *>* c b * a< ** ° f .ho? down SiS June 10 1891 Claud Angland, the hero of the novel, who laad aie ™* W J hot . <t° wn , without June 10,1891. . g wheQ the b ' ing> remorse but evidently with a degree of " Mr. Vogan presents us with one of the receives the last message of an uncle who S lee "X, 1 """."?* 1 ™ policemen and settlers, strongest and sternest indictments of the has died while exploring the Australian One o f the chief instruments m the slaughter policy pursued towards the aborigines in w ilds. This communication is much in the of the aboriginals are the native mounted Queensland that has ever been penned, oracular style of those potsherd or parch- P. ohce - -I hese consist of black 'boys, as. Unhappily there is only too much evidence ment documents which we know so well in they are called, under the command of ',o bear out a portion of his charges. That Rider Haggard's story. There is more in European inspectors, whose cruelty was native camps have been from time to time the paper than at first meets the eye. never surpassed m the slavery days of ' rounded up' and their inmates mercilessly Moved thereto by certain mysterious America. shot down, either in retaliation for some symbols on the paper, Angland proceeds to alleged odence on the part of the blacks or Sydney, bound for Queensland, in quest of "Taranaki Herald," June 8,1891. out of sheer wantonness, is a fact patent to ) the spot where his uncle died, which we . . . anyone acquainted with the colony in ] may here say he ultimately reached, . nls w ork is made interesting by ,a ■ju'estion. Nor can it be denied that the discovering at a certain place indicated a skilfully constructed plot, and his sketch of capture of black girls by "white settlers for Mount Morgan mine, which made him social life in Sydney is very readable. The immoral purposes is altogether unknown, wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. stor y opens in Auckland, where the hero though in this connection it must not be The chief part of the novel, however, is receives a mysterions letter from a dead forgotten that the native method of court- taken up with the Queensland squatter and uncle, written with ink which has to be ship in itself partakes of the characteristics his treatment of the blacks. According to ? iade vis ible with chemicals, in which he is popularly associated with the wooing of the the author there is a firmly established informed of a rich gold-bearing mine in Sabines by the Romans. But Mr. Vogan slavery of the worst kind, by which the Australia. This causes Claude Angland to goes rather further than we can venture to white master exercises the most absolute g° to Queensland, and the author has thus confirm him in his assertions respecting the ownership over the persons of his black a . n opportunity of describing Australian employment of the black police in the slaves, tying them up and brutally lashing !^ c scenery. The atrocities as related slaughter of their less civilised fellows, them for trivial offences, and hunting them n tbis_ book are painfully realistic. The His statements on this head are certainly down with all the apparatus of dogs and hero discovers a rival to the now Mount most startling, and deserve sifting to the guns if they attempt to run away and Morgan gold mine.and this is told in a very utmost. . . . Mr. Vogan has produced rejoin their tribes." powerful manner; the weird scenery and a highly interesting book containing a _______ : tne surroun dings of the cavern being succession of stirring incidents capitally * ■- minutely,detailed." described, and some excellent portrayals «• Wanganul Herald," May 10,1891. \z __, of types and characters familiartosojourners " v- ~A beneath the Southern Cross. He is, too, to t<£ The Black Police'—a very timely and '"; "Southern News," May 29,1891. be specially commended for the clear and powerfully written book from the pen of an <{ ~P I _, ~ XT ■ .^■, graphic touches with which, without any ex-journalist of this Colony. We must . r -I he Black Police, by a New Zealand, overdone attempts at word painting, he confess on reading Mr. Vogan's book, we author, Mr. Arthur Vogan, is not of the puts the salient features of local landscape were loth to believe that matters could be P enn y dre aaful order; it takes rank far before the reader's eye." so bad as he paints them, in these days of & b" v e much of the trash successfully improved civilisation, and thought that he produced of recent years for the novel"Scottish Leader," March 19 IS9I must be &- via K some of the darker deeds of J;? adln <= P ub lic. The book is not a novel, the early days a recent date, and palruin" thou g h an interesting story is interwoven "' The Black Police,' by A. J. Vogan them oft as things of yesterday. Mr.Vo"an Avlth the revelations regarding the terrible (London, Hutchinson), is a tale of modern gives vivid and horrifying descriptions' of treatment of the blacks in QueenslandAustralia. It is devoted to an exposure of how the blacks are 'dispersed' in Queens- y eve ' a tions as thrilling as anything recorded the cruelties and treacheries by which the land to-day, and did space permit we would * n Harriet Beeoher Stowe's celebrated work, white man ousts the black from the home reproduce the picture of one of these blood- 'Uncle Tom's Cabin. , If half the allegaof his fathers. There can be little doubt curdling scenes from Mr. Vogan's pen. We * lons are * rue i Mr. Vogan has done a good that many of the pictures which the writer commend the perusal of the book itself to an< * n °ble work by directing the attention draws of Australian frontier life are true to our readers, who will find within its covers fc ' 3e *° a condition of matters that nature. If that be so, they are little much that will cause them to ask with is nothing less than an, awful reproach to creditable to the people who practise and Bret Harte's unsophisticated hero, 'Is our &n J civilised and Christian community, permit such horrora." civilisation a dream ?' If, like us, they are ac ront cover of the book contains a' sceptical at first of the truth of Mr.Voo-an's pi cture °* °ne of the shameful scenes said "Scotsman," March 9 1891 statement that ' dispersing , is only another to , c frequently enacted in the back parts name for • butchering,' or even worse Queensland —an unfortunate gin, roped " The freshness of its material, and a treatment of the helpless aborigines and **y the hands to a stockyard, is undergoing certain rude vigour that goes through it all, that the latter are hunted like dingoes by a flogging with the lash on the bare hack make the book interesting. The story the Native Police Officers, with their small .f 1 " 0111 one of the station hands. The seems to have been written with a purpose— but well-trained packs of black trackers on the frontispiece is still more to expose and reprehend the treatment, who enjoy the work with fiendish glee, they revoltin g. A surprise party of squatters represented as brutal, that is undergone by have only to recall to mind the telegrams aye come across a native camp, and, in the aborigines of Australia at the hands of on the subject which are constantly *be early dawn, 'disperse , by slaying wth the whites." appearing. Mr. Vogan asserts that the r^e bullet and tomahawk every native • Queensland Black Police frequently arrest man, woman > an( i child in the little settle- " Manchester Examiner," March 7. *be wrong natives wilfully, and give them meD *' The dead and mutilated bodies of . a chance to escape whilst en route for the ie unfortunate aborigines strew the A cryptogram from a dead hand mdi- nearest goal. The prisoners thinkinstliev ground, while a mother kneeling, with an eating to a living friend a hidden treasure see their way to escape, attempt to do so infan6 clas ped to her breast, pleads is not a.new conception, but the present and their black captors coolly shoot them inavaUingly to be spared." story derives some novelty from the manner down, and the white officer in charge reporte of its narration, as well as from the circum- the circumstance, minus the facts £ to ■ stances that precede and accompany the wrongful arrest and the bait held' out to "Canterbury Press," May 18,189 L~. discovery of the cryptogram. TJie action tempt the prisoners to escape Mi Voaan's «««-i «,,„,.,' ,L opens and closes m New Zea and, but the boot, read in the lightTo? n \ The A BI f k ™™ ty tueatre of the mam events is in Australia,, that are of almost daily occurrence should S * An g land «* the rival to Moon* and especially m Queensland. These events do some good and f Morgan is a wonderfully clever piece of aresomewhatof the' Wild West'character, QueenslaSTand ISrallan sceneiy and tfe weird but they include, m addition to a pleasant colonies, within whose bordVr?fS surroundln gs«f the cavern being desenbed tale of friendship rewarded and true love' atrocities are perpetmted into putW V6ry The book is well worth. triumphant, some heartrending exposures down such crinL. P Black Police of P erusaL ■ of the sanguinary and tyrannical treatment Queensland has always been a crvin- evil '" Stfers If 2Xtt EurOpeSn as ifcs dark deeds have &£ TquenTly " Ne W Zealand Times," May S, 1891. the attention of the Colonial Secretary is of tneifmethods of < d3L" SOmefc i" n .§ ? ,at the wholesale, lawless, ferocious urgently required. The hero bought U unluck^ ■ mC l%h o preSe to C am D °or of Queensland blacks there a young attendant as he might have hunt in the country ?*? b x e . rem embered, and measures jtaken bought a portmanteau; he paid £2 for Luatters whose Zk S ~ml hlfi/ * ?*% for an end to it. him The story proper isagrekbleenough writteß-mti... m character, and is told with warmth a?id has overtaken these latr P r W lirfnr« • .philanthropic motive as its raison d'etre, animation, which, however, sometimes 'turuCarried?bv the to attention to the atrocities degenerates into a hilarious frothiness ' outs£s wlm know S ft" 6 said to be perpetrated by the which defeats its own object .. . Tlip through Mr Vogan's Wt■ tfip ?« « bla fk troopers,etc.,in Northern Queensland episode of Billy and the < hatter' will ra & ways of wherf th" 5 f d l^ sin S. cam of aboriginals, who, up friends for the, author, and it is not the blacks are see Si some of ?™ xlmit 7 to squatting stations only bit oi exquisite writing which this their present SnWee feW th? «SL » maybe unpleasant neighbours to the great 3--- « -~-,T Ota JS