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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 248, 19 October 1891, Page 7

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It is hard to realise things, such horrors, as Mr. Vogan describes theme as a New Zealander who has recently chat the wholesale massacres of blacks— with revolting relish, can happen in a found a London publisher—we mean Mr. men, women, and children—here described, civilised British community 1" Arthur James Vogan. . . . The book iiro wholly accurate, or that licenses are is undoubtedly written with a purpose. Its granted to men to shoot ' Myalls' (wild : — leading idea is to illustrate the manner in blacks) on sight; or even that a native ' which the Australian blacks are shot down ' boy' can be bought in Queensland towns " Christchureh Ppass." b y the squatters, especially in the back for a sovereign or two. Mr. Vogan, dating districts of Queensland. The author, m from New Zealand, states that 'the scenes "' The Black Police. -If only one-third the brief preface to his readerS) says> «j aid main incidents employed are chiefly the °| the scenes depicted m the book by Mr. li;ivo en d e avoured to depict some of the result of ray personal observations and Vogan are true, it is time such a reproach obscurer portions of Australia's shadow life, experiences; tho remainder are from per- was wiped off the fair fame of Australia TJls BCencs , md main incit i cnts employed fectly reliable sources. , " •. \ • Some of the scenes are painted ur e chiefly the result of my personal obserJ with a good deal of power. 1 lie discovery vations and experiences ; the remainder "Daily Chronicle," Aprfl 15,18D1. by Claude Angland of the rival to Mount f rom perfectly reliable sources.' The writer • Morgan is a wondertully clever piece ot word gives a, brief sk< teh of Auckland city, and "To several 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 ol finding out the last resting- ' The Black Police; a Story of Modern very powerfully. . . . 'The Black phu-e of his uncle, aif explorer, and also to Australia,' by A. J. Vogan (London, Police'is well worth perusal." discover, by means of a last letter from him, Hutchinson & 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 untlying district of Queensland, and also wain incidents employed are chiefly the "Otago Times," Juno 6. 1801. makes 'him 'an eyo witness of the brutal Vijsnlt of personal observations and expen- , n in which the black population are « * 3tor * i 3 -questionably To J, *^ eAUting ' horrors in Mrs. Stowe's book are ™« wealth. If we are to believe Mr. "London Mornln* Advertiser/ more horrible than the facts recorded here. ,\X"re Wo?vn SSSt T,,« ft io IBQJ Claud Angland, the hero of the novel, who J " ,KI »'c not only sho, i o>vn .ViWiout June 10, 1331. Auckland when the story begins, r™»>™, but evidently with a degree of " Mr. Vogan presents us with one of the receives the last mcssaire of an uncle who I "/'Oth native policeman and settlers strongest and sternest indictments of the ha* died while exploring the Australian <.»»«of the chief insurumontsin the slaugoter policy pursued towards the aborigines in wilds. This communication is much in the or : i)K aboriginals are the native mounted Queensland that has ever been penned, oracular style of those potsherd or parch- ]', o!jcc - Ihese consist of black boys as Unhappily there is only too much evidence menb documents which we know ao well in ". iey are called under tue command of '-0 bear out a portion of his charges. That Rider Haggard's story. .There is more in i-'>ropean inspectors whose cruelty was native camps We been from time to time the paper than at first meets the eye. surpassed m tho slavery days of ' rounded up ' and their inmates mercilessly Moved thereto by certain mysterious --'neuca. shot down, either in retaliation for some symbols on the paper, Angland proceeds to alleged oli'ence on the part of the blacks or Sydney, bound for Queensland, in quest of "Taranaki Herald," Juna 8, iSSI. out of sheer wantonness, ie a fact patent to the spot where his uncle died, which we . . . . . , anyone acquainted with the colony in niay here say he ultimately reached, .„/ » s work 1S " la( ' e interesting by a question. Nor can it be denied that the discovering at a certain place "indicated a ski ! f " l ] J constructed plot, and his sketch of capture of black girls by white settlers for Mount Morgan mine, which made him social life in oydney is very reauaole. ilie immoral purposes is altogether unknown, wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. stOl T °P sns in Auckland, where the hero though in this connection it must not be The chief part of the novel, however, is receives a mysterious letter from a dead forgotten that the native method of court- taken up with the Queensland squatter and unc °> wntten with ink which has to be ship in itself partakes of the characteristics his treatment of the blacks. According to ? n * de Vl! j lbl f Wlth . chemicals, m which he is popularly associated Avith the wooing of the the author there is a firmly established informed of a rich gold-bearing mine m Sabines by the Romans. But Mr. Vogan slavery of the worst kind, by which the Australia. Ihw causes Claude Angland to goes rather further than we can venture to white master exercises the most absolute go to Queensland, and the autnor has uhus confirm him in his assertions respecting the ownership over the persons of his black »" «Pl>»rbumty ot describing Australian employment of the black police in the slaves, tying them up and brutally lashing hfe a ? d scenery. The atrocities as related slaughter of their less civilised fellows, them for trivial offences, and hunting them ! n fchl ?. book are painfully realistic. The His statements on this head are certainly down with all the apparatus of dogs and » ero 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 m a very utmost. . . . Mr. Vogan has produced reioin their tribes." powerful manner; the weird scenery and a highly interesting book containing a the surroundings of the cavern being succession of stirring incidents capitally minutely detailed, described, and some excellent portrayals "Wanganul Herald," May 10,1891. ——___~.___.— of types and characters familiar tosojourners beneath the Southern Cross. He is, too, to "'The Black Police'—a very timely and "Southern May 29, 1891. be specially commended for the clear and powerfully written book from the pen of an „, ,_ R] ,p ~ , , „ Zealand graphic touches with which, without any ex-journalist of this Colony. must nnHlo Arthur Vo3n is nob of the overdone attempts at word painting, he confess on reading Mr. Vogan's book, we At J? S^JL w fi? puts the salient Features of local landscape were loth to believe that matters could be i™W dreadM oidei , before the reader's eye." so bad as he paints them, in these clays of a,Uo y c mucn or ne T,raa ; l s^ ccesfelUi 7 7 improved civilisation, and thought that he « f ,. rece " fc Y ea ™ . for f e nove }" .< e mH v h T«»rt«n» -wn«nh iQ iroi >™<* be giving some of the darlier deeds of reading public. Ihe book is not a novel, "Scottish Leader, xflaroh 19, 1891. a recent date, and palming though an in-cresting story is interwoven ««The Black Police,' by A. J. them off as tilings of yesterday. Mr. Vogan with the revelations regaining the terrible (London, Hutchinson), i. of modern gives vivid and°horftfying Australia. It is devoted to an exposure of how the blacks are ' dispersed' in Queens- reveutiont, tmiuing as anj tiling lecoiaea fhe cruelties and treacheries by Jhich tho land to-day, and did space permit we would » g"™ Tf iSf tC oll?S' white man ousts the black from the home reproduce the picture of one of these blood- .j^ 1 ® 1 ?"!. c if. v o ",,'L, !fS of his fathers. There can be little doubt curdling scenes from Mr. Vogan's pen. We hv Shl 1 o ttt^nn that many of the pictures which the writer commend the perusal of the book itself to ''the world IJn dition ?f that draws of Australian frontier life are true to our readers, who will find within its covers ot *Je v,or 11to a condition on a.tesis that nature If that be so, they are little much that will cause them to ask with w nothing less than an awful leproach to Stable to the people who practise S Bret Harte's unsophisticated hero, Ms our ™f £™?±™ d of °t 'Sk TiSiS^ nermit such horrors." civilisation a dream ?' If, like us, they are Ihe front covei of the book contains, a 1 sceptical at first of the truth of Mr. Vogan's of on( l 1 of tho scenes said „,(„„„, f .!,„. t „) ;„ r „ o to be frequently enacted in the back parts "Scotsman," M 0, 1891. „ onlyanothcr "The freshness of its material, and a treatment of the helpless aborigines., and certain rude vigour that goes through it all, that the latter are hunted like dingoes by t?°?°ZVs to bnruk Tht make the bool interesting Tlfe story to.Native PoUce Officers with their small n f i^S seems to have been written with a purpose— but well-trained packs of black trackers, r( , vrilHTlo . * c llrnr ; RP n i rhr ftf , m , a tt m to expose and reprehend the treatment, who enjoy the work with fiendish glee, they ]?™}"™% e Ud Sin represented as brutal, that is undergone by have only to recall to mind the telegrams »f^ ea^™| S < 3 d f"^, the aborigines of Australia at the hands of on the subject whxch are constantly native theWlUt --: : -n woman and child in the little settle ™ 1^ "A cryptogram from a dead hand mdi- nearest goal. The prisoners, thin P?™?' n \° th f a kn f, l ™S w * h eating to a living friend a hidden treasure see their way to escape, attempt to So so, in n f hI.JZ " ' P is not a new conception, but the present and their black captors coolly shoot them un ' l * auni g l y zo DS spared. story derives some novelty from the manner down, and the v/hite officer in charge reports of its narration, as well as from the circum- the circumstance, minus the facts ?s to „_, s . „ „ _„, >„ .„„, stances that precede and accompany the wrongful arrest and the bait held out to Canterbury Press, May .8,1391. discovery of the cryptogram. The action tempt the prisoners to escape. Mr. Vogan's "'The Black Police. s —The discovery by opens and closes in New Zealand, but the book, read in the light of tlie disclosures Claude Angland of the rival to Mount theatre of the main events is in Australia, that are of almost daily occurrence, should Morgan is a wonderfully clever piece of and especially in Queensland. These events do some good, and shame the authorities of wortf painting, the scenery and the weird are somewhat of the ' Wild West' character, Queensland and the other Australian surroundings of the cavern being described but they include, in addition to a pleasant colonies, within whose borders these very powerfully. The book is well worth tale of friendship rewarded and true love atrocities are perpetrated, into putting perusal." triumphant, some heartrending exposures down such crimes. The Black Police of ' of the sanguinary and tyrannical treatment Queensland has always been a crying evil, « »__ -Tr Jrn ~,~ » * -q qf meted out to the aborigines by the European as its dark deeds have been frequently Near Zealand Times, KlayS )A S9I. settlers. If what is here set down even condemned and exposed by those who have "The story ought to be read in order remotely resembles the true state of affairs, had an opportunity of knowing something that the wholesale, lawless, ferocious the attention of the Colonial Secretary is of their methods of 'dispersing , their butchery of the unhappy Queensland blacks urgently required, me hero bougat out unlucky fellows, who presume to camp or may be remembered, and measures taken there a young attendant as he might have hunt in the country taken up by pioneer for putting an end to it. bought a portmanteau; ha paid £2 for squatters, whose flocks and herds are held " The work is apparently written with ahim. The story proper is agreeable enough of more value than human life. Nemesis philanthropic motive as ita raison d'etre, in character, and is told with warmth and has overtaken these latter, -vvho are now in namely, to call attention to the atrocities animation, which, however, sometimes turn harried by the shearers on strike, and which are said to be perpetrated by the degenerates into a hilarious frothiness outsiders who know for the first time black troopers, etc.,in Northern Queensland which defeats its own object. . . . The through Mr. Vogan's book the heartless in ' dispersing' camps of aboriginals who episode of Billy and the ' hatter will raise ways of outlying squatters where the from their proximity to squatting stations, up friends for the_ author.and it is not the blacks are concerned, will see in some of may be unpleasant neighbours to the "Teat only bit of exquisite writing which this their present troubles from the shearers' squatters and runholders. The best parts very unequal but very promising volume strike, a just retribution for crimes which of the novel are the descriptions of the con tains." , have long cried in vain for vengeance." blacks of Northern Queensland." ■PRICE—TWO Shillings, .AT' AXIL BQOKSICi !Tf!~RS J fe-l I .' ESrJ