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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 308, 18 September 1875, Page 3

News recently reached Europe that an extinctvolcanoin Iceland had opened forfour weeks, and ejected fire, lava, ashes, and muddy boiling fluid.. Villages and farms within twenty miles of it were destroyed. Thousands of people had to flee for their lives. This volcano ceased, and ; another opened a hundred miles away, and devasted the country for fifty miles around. New mounds hate been thrown up in the centre of the island several hundred feet, and poured out their burning contents over two hundred miles of country, ’ rendering tfti thousand people homeless. Several hundred people are t reported to have perished. Some famous geysers dried up since the terrible eruption, and instead of water emit immense yoluuigsof hot smoke , and ashes, which at night appear like gigantic columns of fire, visible for hundreds of miles. The eruption is said to'be the most widely extended volcanic action ever known in the world. The forty thousand inhabitants on the coast of Iceland are too poor to support their destitute fellow-country-men, and the Copenhagen Government has madb lan appeal for sthe