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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1203, 24 February 1880, Page 3

SALES BY AUCTION. SATURDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY. At his Booms, Harbor-street. At 12 o'clock. AH. MAU D I • has received instructions to se Ibj public auction at above time and place— The following Valuable Freehold Properties, viz : Section 22, Block 2, Oamara Town. Also, Sections 12 and part of 13, Block 16, Oamara Town, sub-divided int< five allotments, corner of Reed anc Ouse-streets. Terms at sale. Plan of allotments can be seen, at thf office of Auctioneer. A. H. MAUDE, 416 Auctioneer. THURSDAY, 11th MARCH. At 3 o'clock. WALTER PEAK STATION, Wakatipu Lake. FOR SALE BY AUCTION. Maclean and co. •will submit to auction, at tfceii Rooms, Manse-street, Dunedin, on the above date, THE WALTER PEAK STATION, Comprising—--24,000 Acres or thereby, of which 10,000 acres are held on pastoral lease, expiring 31st March, ISBI 13,700 acres are held on Goldfields tenure 346 acres are held on Agricultural lease. Together with BGOO first-class Merino Sheep, viz. 5000 Wethers, chiefly young 3000 Ewes and Lambs 50 Rams And A few head of Cattle and Horses. The improvements consist of a new stone dwelling-house of five rooms, with verandah, &c., woolshed, drafting yards, men's huts, shearing paddocks, large fruit and vegetable garden, &c. The sheep are in excellent order, and are a particularly good flock, being chiefly bred from rams imported from Victoria; and the site of the Homestead is one of the most beautiful and easily accessible in the Lake District. Terms : One-third cash ; balance at one and two years. For further particulars apply to DALGETY & CO., Bond-street; Or to MACLEAN & CO., 301 Macse-sireet, Dunedin, AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE Itf SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments £0,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. The Innd is from 20 miles n'rlh to 16 miles south of the latitude of thj mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the C.utha, the average height atove the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excelleut wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grassy, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of copping; manure his land by feeding off his gveen crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A 1 over the district there is fir.ffc-cl-iss limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, 'j reti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop liue from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin roam line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hiil District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken fron the statistics of the Colony for the yeari 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbuty, arc a3 follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commeic al centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate iB both drier and warmer, tut aloDg the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the con- , viction that for all-round agriculture the; supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of tfee Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, tfhile there has been very considerably less rain-. fall in any part of the Colony. . | .AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. I IS6S ... 1569 ... 1570... 1871 ... 1872* 1577 ... * No observations taken in Southland during - - 187& to 1876. .„ . , •WALTER? Hv »^ ! Ooinmissioner of Waste Lands 3§4 : -' ;: .i - rA Board, Southland, •• t '