EMIGRATION OF ICELANDERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 98, 13 March 1875, Page 9

EMIGRATION OF ICELANDERS.

The New York correspondent of the Sydney « Freeman's TOlT 011 vr, o i » writes :-Tho Icelanders like the Ir4 are in wXof a W They have ceased to relish their native land, and they loSTto America for a change. It is not, however, through bad Govern ment that the poor Icelanders leave their icy home. The cE of their country, which i B gradually growing more severe Tthl cause of then- expatriation It is now proposed that the whole population should^ emigrate to North America. Five hundred of them have already settled in Canada and Wisconsin^ tat the summer heats are too powerful for them. They have fm-moiit , I officially represented their case to GovemmeTtanf demanded a vessel to carry them to the peninsular of Alaska, the rSt re-fon ceded some short tune since by Russia to America. The request has been comphed with and those Icelandic representatives have sailed m a sloop of war to inspect the Alaska territory Twe^mv moS extraordinary settlement at Sy