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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 309, 31 December 1891, Page 2

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It is hard to realise things, such horrors, as Mr. Vogan describes theme as a New Zcalander who has recently :hab the wholesale massacres of blacks — with revolting- relish, can happen in a found a London publisher—we mean Mr. >nen, women, and children—here described, civilised British community 1" Arthur James Vogan. . . . The book ire wholly accurate, or that licences are ; ■ ia undoubtedly written with a purpose. Its 'ranted to men to shoot 'Myalls' (wild . —: leading idea is,to illustrate the manner in Filacks) on sight; or even that a mu.ivo which the Australian blacks are shot down ' boy' can be bought in Queensland towns «Christchurch Press." by the squatters, especially in the back for a sovereign or two. Mr. Vogan, dating . districts of Queensland. The author, in from New Zealand, states that 'the scenes , , The Black Police.—lt only one-third the brief preface to'his readers, says, 'I fi:id main incidents employed are chiefly tho °i the scenes depicted in the book by Mr hiUO vm j eavou ,. e d to depict some of the result of my personal observations'and V ogan_ are tyne, if is time such a reproach obscurer portions of Australia's shadow life, experiences ; the remainder are from per- was wip'*** oil the fair fame or-Australia. ft scenes am [ nia in incidents employed fectly reliable sources.'" • .• • borne of the scenes are painted are chiefly the result of my personal ob.ser- _ with a good deal of power. The discovery vations and experiences; the remainder "Daily Chronicle," April 15,1891. Ny Claude Angland of the rival to Mount f rom pcr f ecl i y , liable sources.' The writer , .. .■ . ..., M ? r ß? nls V' onderfullycle I ve - plece . <^ AVOl ' d "lo several colonial stones winch have painting; the scenery and the-weird sur- then transport* his her >to Queensland for been published must now be added ronndings of the cavern being described the purpose out the last icsting•lhe Black Police; a Story of Modern very powerfully. . • /The Black place of his uncle, aif explorer, and also to ustraha, by A J. Vogan Police is well worth perusal. discover, by means of a last letter from him, f.utchmson &Co ). It is an attempt to a famous gold mine. This quest brings him depict some of the obscurer portions of _. infco confc £. fc wifch tJ .?,., ter life % f the ' Australia's shady side, and the scones and outlying district of-Queensland, and also •nun incidents employed are chiefly the "Otago Times," June 6. 3891. makes liim an eye witness of the brutal ,«mltofpersona oWvjfaone and expen ; „ } the 'Uncle manner the blaclc population are o"ciW» ,of Queens] £ ld; an(} the being annihilated in the interests or cxvihsaa ' : horrors in Mrs. Stowe's book are hardly tiou and wealth. If we are to believe Air. "London Morning Advertiser," more horrible than the facts recorded here. V «S/ 111 . the blacks of the colony of QueensJune 10 1391 ■ Claud Angland, the hero of the novel, who ]iiV ' a fire , not nt,! y shot (lown without is in Auckland when the story begins, remorse, but evidently with a degree of " Mr. Vogan presents us with one of the receives the last message of an vinclo who K lee °.V l ™ th native policemen and settlers, strongest and sternest indictments of the has died while exploring the Australian One of the chief instruments in the slaughter policy pursued towards the aborigines in wilds. This communication-is much in the °f tiie aboriginals are the native mounted ijnce'n.sknd that has ever been penned, oracular style of those potsherd or parch- P°l lce - Ihesc consist of black 'boys,' as Unhappily there is only too much evidence merit documents which we know so wull in ie .V iXrc called, under the, command of •o bear out a portion of his charges. Thai Rider Haggard's story. There its more in -knrope.an inspectors, whose cruelty was native camps have been from time to time the paper than at. ijrst meets the eye. nevei'/surjpassed in the slavery days of ' rounded up ' and their inmates mercilessly Moved thereto by' certain ' mysterious America.' -hot down, either in retaliation lor some symbols on the paper,'A'ngJ.ind proceeds to alleged ofl'ence on the part of the blacks or Sydney, bound for Queensland, in quest of "Tarauaki Herald," Juno 8, 1831. out of sheer wantonness, is a fact patent to the rapot whore his uncle died, which we , . anyone acquainted with the colony- in may here say he . ultimately reached, ,'.' T ,, 1S WOr,C 1S 'I' , intcrestill S h J question. Nor can it be denied that the discovering at a certain place indicated a Bkil.ully constructed plob, and his sketch of ■•aptiireof black girls by white setUers for Mount Morgan mine, which made him s'>c)n,l life in Sydney is very readable. The immoral purposes is altogether unknown, wealthy beyond : the ; dreams of avarice ' stor .V °i>ens in Auckland, where the hero l-hough in this connection it must not be The chief part of the novel, however, is receives a f mysterious letter from a dead i forgotten that the native method of court- taken up wifch the Queensland squatter and UIIcl '-> } VII "en with ink which has to be , ship in itself partakes of the characteristics hj, ;i treatment of the blacks. According to ini . ldfi VlSlble w >th chemicals, m which nc is | popularly associated with the wooingnf lIk: the author there ia a firmly esLnblislicd mtorinaa of a-rich gold-bearing mine, in Sahines by the Komans. But Mr. Vogun slavery of the worst kind, by which the Australia. Tins causes Claude Angland to j foes rather further than we can venture to white master exorcises the most absolute g'> i,o Queensland, and the author has thus i confirm him in his assertions respecting tha ownership over the persons of his black :U1 »I'l»>'-Lmnty of describing Australian ■ employment of the black police in the slaves, tying them up and brutally lashing life and scenery. The atrocities as related I slaughter of their less civilised fellows, them for trivial ollences, and hunting them hi this book are painfully realistic. 'Ihe His statements on this head are certainly down with all the apparatus of do-<s and " cro discovers a rival to the now Mount ! moft startling, and deserve sifting to the guns if they attempt to run away and Morgan gold mmc.and this is told in a.very j utmost. . . . Mr. Vogan hns produced rejoin their tribes." powerful manner; the scenery and j a highly interesting book containing a the surroundings ■of the cavern being I succession of stirring incidents capitnily ' ~ ' " ; minutely detailed." I described, and some excellent portrayals " V/angranul Herald," May 10, 1891. : : -— ' of types and characters familiartosojourr.ers . ! beneath the Southern Crosrs. He is, too, to " 'The Black Police '—a very timely and ."Southern News," May 29, 1391. I be specially commended for the clear find powerfully written book from the pen of an ~ ~. .n .. XT , , grapnic touches with which, without -any ex-journalist of this Colony. We mu.t '' ll( = f^J'f^ overdone attempts at word paintiu*. he confess on rea.ling Mr. Vogan's book, we antlio,, \h A.t-hur Vormn, h r.ofc o the , nuts the salient features of local landscape wore loth to beliuvo-that matters could be pen».Y dreadful order; it takes rank tar ■ before the reader's eve " so bad as he paints them, in these days of ", uu '' of !' !,e traa f betoretlie readers, eye. improved civilisation, and thought that he 1 ,, " 0, ~ u!« l 1 "\™™f J™ f ° r th<3 n ° V6 " I ~ mnut Tin fririntr eniiin n 1 t-lio il<.oilc ,»f I'ClKling tiUijllC. I lIC UOOk IS HOt » nOVGI, J ,- — ii.. v Monnv. in lorn must oc irivuiK some Oi tile ufii ker uchiis oi . ,° ' . ~ . ' i "Scottish Leader. March 19, 1801. earl b ,, " a receflt dat an( [ , )a!m ing a " interesting story is interwoven j '"The Black Police,' by A. J. Yog.an them oifas things of yesterday. Mr. Vogan with the revelations re«'arding the ternole | /London, Hutchinson), ie a tale of modern wives vivid and horrif. Y iup description? of treiu-incnt of the blacks m Queensland- , Australia. • It is devoted to an expomuc <»f how the blocks aro ' dispersed ' in Queen,- I the cruelties and treacheries by which the. land to-day, and did space permit we would n Hα .iet,.beechei olonvc sc.t.ebi.x-.td you,, , white man ousts the black from the home reproduce the picture of one of these blood- 4 . Um ' ,o Jom s *?*°™; lt , hah , Mq a!ie S ;! ' 1 " , of his fathers. There can be little doubt curdling scenes from Mr. Vogan's p,,n. We tlo f TvT', V^H lT ff T°h ! that many of the pictures which the writer commend the perusal of theW itself to '' draws of Australian frontier life arc trnc to our readers, Ao will find within its covers ol the . UOrl 'to a condition of matteiS that j nature If that be SO, they are little "inch that will cause them to ask with less than an avvfnl renroach to S table to tho people ;ho pLtL and Bret Harte's unsophisticated hero, •Iβ our '' sed and Christum community. permit such horrors." " civilisation a droam ?' If, like us they -a.ro l.h« ironfc cover of the book contains a 1)0 J!!!_ sceptical at first of the truth of Mr. Vogan's f !C ure ot '■ ,ne ( , of fchc f^ mQ ul B , cen , es Sa " ld <(r . o tr . mnr . „ T , 7ewh 0 in ~ statement that • dispersing' is only another to !''= l enacted m the back parts •Scotsman, March 9, io«. name for . butch( J ri ,~ or ev J n worse «»r Quoensland-an unfortunate gin, roped "The freshness of its material, and a treatment of the-helufcss aborigines, an<l %\°<%? "udergomp certain rude vigour that goes throuo;h it,all, that the hatter are hunted like dingoes by ? "?f S A"S" ?K? tr T! ' make the book interesting- The story the Native Police OQicors, with their snmll t"» °» C of^ c station hands lh«. seevnstoliavebeenwrittenwithapurpose.- but well-trained packs of black truckers, [Jj f%< A m nSS S at t to expose and reprehend the treatment, who enjoy the work with fiendish glee, thov v^\ a S- A snipnse mil/ of squatters represented as brutal, that ia nndergone by have only to recall to mind the tele-rams ; ! . ;u,; c ' )! ™ acios ( & ,? native camp, and, in the ahoricrines of Australia'Rtthe hands 6f on , the subject which-are constantly t the whites." apnearing. Mr. Wan asserts that the Jllic bnlle,/ 'W« »;»>.wk evciy native , Queensland Black Police frequently arrest man ; wo^ an ', an , d clu , la m * ie ll , t^ e « etfcle " «Manrtheeter March 7. the wrong natives wilfully, .and give thorn \ho a chance to escape whilst en route for the Ul " untort . ,mate . a'jonomes strew the " A cryptogram from a dead hand mdi- nearest goo.l. Tlie prisonoi-s. thinking they g' , ""™ l . while a, mother knee»in-g, with an catin K to a livin- friend a hidden treasure see thoirVay to escape, attempt to <lo d, cWd to her breast, pleads is not a. new conception, but the present and their black captors coolly shoot them untuaumgly to be spaieu. story derives some novelty from the manner down, and the white oflicer in charge reports ~— of it's narration, as well as from the circum- the circumstance, minus" the facts vs to ~_, , . _ stances that precede and accompany the wrongful arrest and the bait held out to Cantertmiw jrross, May IS, 1891. disco very of the cryptogram. The action tempt the prisoners to escape. Mr. Vogan's "'The Black Police.'—The discovery by opens and closes in New Zealand, but the book, read in the light of the disclosures Claiulu Angland of the rival to Mount .theatre of the main events is in Australia,, tliat are of almost daily occurrence, should Morgan Ts "a wonderfully clever piece of and ©.specially in (Queensland. TheseevontH do somo pood,-and shame the authorities of word painting the scenery md'the weird are somewhat of the'WiM West , character, Queensland and the other Australian surroundings of the cavern bein™ 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 <(1T rr , , r,., meted out to the aborigines by the European as its dark deeds liavo been frequently «ew Zealand Times, • May 8,1891. settlers. If what is here set down even condemned and exposed by those who have "The story ou"ht to b» read in ord^r remotely resembles the truestate of ail'airs, had an opportunity of knowing something that the v.'holestde, lawless f«rooious the attention of the Colonial Secretary is of their methods of 'dispersing , their butchery of the unhappy Q-ieenshiH hbcl-s urgently required. hero bought out unlucky fellowa, who presume to camp or may be" remembered, and measure* 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; he . paid £2 'for squatters, whose flocks and herds are hold " The work is apparently written with s him. The story proper is agreeable enough ot more value than human life. Nemesis philanthropic motive as iU raison d-rfrc in character, and is told with warmth and has overtaken these latter, who are now in namely, to call attention to the "t"oeitif4 animation, which, however, sometimes turn harried by the'shearers, on strike, and which'are said to be perpetrated "hv the degenerates into "a hilarious frothiness outsiders who -■> know for - the iirst time black troopers a te. in Northern'Oriv.rlln-nrl which defeats its own object. ... The through Mr. Vogan's book the heartless in 'dispersing ; campjTof *'wim episode of Billy and the , hatter' will raise ways of ou'Jymg squatters where the from their proximity f,o souattm* stuions' up friends for the author t> and it is nofc the blacks are concerned, will see in some of may be unpleasant' neMitiours to'tiip o-rpaf ■ only bit of exquisite writing which this their jjresent tvoubla? from "the shearers' squatters and'runholdors The rairN very unequal but very promising vbiume strike, a just retribution for crimes which of the novel are the. of 'the contains." . have long cried in vain for vengeance." blacks of Northern Queensland." •■..-■ PRIOE—TwQ Shfilings,' ,AT ALL BOOKSELLERS'/ J . .. , I