EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8446, 23 July 1888, Page 6

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.

The annual spring influx of immigrants to the United States is (the New York correspondent of the Daily News says) larger than usual. They are coming now at the rata of a thousand a day, and nearly have arrived since January 1. This is 3,000 more than the first three months of last year. The news is published from London that the rush of Irish immigrants is so great that the Transatlantic companies are unable to accommodate them. Speaking of the immigration, Mr Jackson, the superintendentof Castle Garden, said that, out of 10,190 persons who landed in January, 2,153 were from the United Kingdom, including 1,103 Englishmen, 63S Irishmen, 222 Scotchmen, and 189 Welshmen. The Italians flocked in to the number of 2,129, Germans 1,856, Russians 1,091, and Hungarians 1,064. About the same distribution ot nationalities was shown in 15,157 immigrants who landed in February and 28,500 who came in March. The destination of the great majority of im. migrants is the North-West. Very few find their way to the South. The opportunities, of obtaining employment and securing lands are better the further they go west. It is an incentive to a vast number of immigrants to own farms, and the immigration has b:en so enormous of late years that it is necessary for them to go further west. Many Frenchmen and the better class of Italians and Sicilians go to California and become winegrowers. They understand the cultivation of grapes, and in a few years they will be heard of. Only a short time ago 6,000 Italians of the navvy type were sent to Colorado to make railroads. The immigration of Russian Jews is large. They, however, seldom leave the nig cities, as most of them are tailors, and their little shops are to be found in the side streets of the cities from New York to San Francisco. Flocks of Austrians are coming. Most of them are miners, and the Great West is their field. Swiss immigrants are farmers, like the Germans and Norwegians, and away they go to

the North-West, until it seems that every foot of land in that great section ought to be under cultivation. Bohemians come in by shiploads. They, like the Russians, stick to the cities. They are mostly cigar manufacturers, and the large tenements of New h ork and other cities are their hives.