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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1212, 5 March 1880, Page 3

SALES BY AUCTION TUESDAY, 23RD MARCH. . At 3 o'clock. WALTER PEAK STATION, Wakatipu Lake. ' FOB SALE BY AUCTION. Maclean and co. •will submit to auction, at their Booms, Mansetstreet, Dunedin, on the above date, 1 s THE WALTER 1 PEAK. STATION, Comprising—--24,000 Acres or thereby; of which 10,000 acres are held on pastoral lease, expiring 31st March, 1881 13,700 acresjare held on Goldfields tenure 346 acres are held on Agricultural lease. Together with 8000 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., woolshedj di-afting, 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 Manse-street, Dunedin. FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. 80,015 acres 35,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase 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 land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the 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 Ciutha, the average height above' 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 excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby, enabling the farmer to keep, his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops, with sheep and cattle, and ke=p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there is; firstclass limestone cropping out to. fertilise the land when it may reqnire 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 distriot is.further intersected by railways, which open up the great. valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Bivers ; while a loop line from the: Invercargill to Kingston Bailway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to. Dunedin main line, at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part ot 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 from tbe statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : » ■# IS ® N » J> GO QO GO GO 00 ,SL The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial 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 is both drier and Warmer, tut aloßg the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile,'and much prized for grass and root crops. The experience of thei last few years leads to the conviction that for all-rotfnd 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 the Middle Island,' arid most parts of the "North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. for sale, and to let For SALE—A small quantityof WASTE PAPER, iatthis office.: • O SBORNE HARVESTER & BINDER. The above celebrated machine is NOW ON SALE By the undersigned.. Descriptive pamphlet 642 on application.. FRANK DUNLOP, Agent." H ARVESTER KING REAPER AND BINDER, Fitted with new Rack Improvement, 1 For season 1880. ■ Lightest, Simplest, arid Best Machine yet introduced. Cuts a six-foot swath. Only, wire used,, Hand Biniling, Table given in. * - HASSELL, SON AND CO., 9p5 Agente, j '■}