"Southern Hews," May 29, 1891.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 21 October 1891, Page 7

"Southern Hews," May 29, 1891.

"' The Black Police,' by a New Zealand author, Mr. Arthur Vogan, is not of the penny dreadful order; it takes rank far above much of the trash successfully produced of recent years for the novelreading public. Thebook is not a novel, though an interesting story is interwoven with the revelations regarding the terrible treatment of the blacks in Queenslandrevelations as thrilling as anything recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's celebrated work, ' Uncle Tom's Cabin.' If half the allegations are true, Mr. Vogan has done a good and noble work by directing the attention of the world to a condition of matters that is nothing less than an awful reproach to any civilised and Christian community. The front cover of the book contains a picture of one of the shameful scenes said to be frequently enacted in the back parts of Queensland —an unfortunate gin, roped by the hands to a stockyard, is undergoing a flogging with the lash on the bare back from one of the station hands. The illustration on the frontispiece is still more revolting. A surprise party of squatters have come across a native camp, and, in the early dawn, ' disperse' by slaying with rifle bullet and tomahawk every na,tive man, woman, and child in the little settlement. The dead and mutilated bodies of the unfortunate aborigines strew the ground, while a mother kneeling, with an infant clasped to her breast, pleads unavailingly to be spared."