Emigration to the Argentine Republic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3216, 29 May 1889, Page 2

Emigration to the Argentine Republic.

.The Cenfrel News number of English emigronte, who:•':!! loft Soiithampton in the: North Get-i : : :J £k man Lloyd's- steamer■•. Dresden-. forVSff Buenos Ayres, have just returned ja- ; ' a-destitute condition, andgaye^ a'sad : !)M. aocpimt'bf- their experiences.' ; reaching Bueno3 Ayres. the; new; 1. W arrivals found that the-. vMr^':.""M Home, where thay were sußr?ed ,to' 'tM he. boarded for three days' ajrthef # expense of the State, waa tilled abouf2ooo epalgrante, >;# babyt m- W4 crushed to death, in: its 7motuer , armswhile the crowd wts'surging'!f| oiitsideftn office; .from which: tioketexllil of admission to tho Home issued, and soverahhours beforo the exhausted nW amva!l||pj were provided with a'dinner. had to pass the night in the dpen ! air,i||l and the women and cbildien terrified almost to-death by laJ^tsj'M which infoated tho wurtyTrd' oMj •visa

the Hbnio; The nights were intensely cold and many of the emigrants Buffered seventy from tho exposure, It was "soon found out that' the premises held out by the Argentine Government of plenty of work at ■gjta, good wages woro entiroly fallaoions; i|F and putting asida the discomfort .ol life in that country as compared with Great Britain, tho emigrants stfito the wages paid would bo scarcely sufficient ' to keep body and soul together, and •tho labor market was completely undersold by Italians and Belgians, «' who could livo on next to nothing, Ths roturned emigrants expressed deep regret that they arrived homo . too late to prevent 200 men. women, and children, who sailed from Southampton a few days ago, from gaining by their own bitter experience." A Wonderful Volcano. (Guatemala Star). f Near the city of San Salvador, in £ Central America, are two active volcanoes—San Miguel and Izalco—which present a magnificent display to the passengers of steamships sailing along the coast. Izalco is as regular as a clock, the eruptions ocourring like the boating of a mighty pulse every seven minutes. It is Aj impossible to conceive of a grander «" speotaole than this monster rising ~ about 7000 ft almost directly.from . tho sea, an immense volume v of steam like a plume constantly out of its Bummit, and broken with 6Utsh regularity by masses of light rising 1000 ft that it has been named. El Eara do Salvador-the lighthouse of Salvador. It is in many respects the most remarkalle volcano in the woili, because its discharges have continued so long and with such regularity, and beoause tbo tumult • ■ in the earth's bowels is always to be heard. Its explosions are constant, and can be heard 100 miles off. _ It is the only volcano that has originated on this continent since the discovery by Columbus, It aroso from the plain in 1770, in the midst of what had been for nearly 100 years, .':* a magnificent coffeo and indigo plantation. . . ■ k