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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1221, 16 March 1880, Page 4

for sale AND FOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 50,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covei cd with Bosh, 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 totitb of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its moatbj Invercargill being 3 miles doe south of the latitude of the Cmtha, the average height,above the sea level being 200 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in. the Australasian. Colonies, and from climatia 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 land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke=p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the when it may require it. Forests of * large extent are scattered over it, providing timbera for building and fencing, and coal {lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distnot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Matanra Rivers; while a loop line from the Xovercargill to Kingston Railway at .Lumsdexn runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line _at Gore, and a line through the Forest HiJl 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 from the statistics of the Colony for -the years 1373 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

• Oflntf S'3 Sgsg O «£* ICW -« -W H* to C 5 OS r«» o ci « ran n ■Si? KH CSHf H 4 N (O « O CI CI CO CO e- A • 2rfsg Ji « oj® O (H H* ~H« «+f O CO Ct O P3 CT W 53 W -S >* 31 o- 3 •*# »«* -fit <■<* « 3* 2 C* 9* CO CO . sgsg o *£•£ -44 83+ «H» -*» © O 'l* 5D O CI CI CO CO CO C 5 Sb S .e9Ht =Ht =M <*» •** * r. no c ® ei 5 e« m « w « n P3 « o or ® r- r— r- r~- t~~GO CO 00 00 CO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invexcargtll, Dunedin. and Christchnxch, the commercial centres of the district*. It may be remarked that Inverrargfllhtmg situated close toFoveaox Straits is exposed to more raisfali andsnddenchanges than the interior of the district only seven miles dse north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for graaa and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the. land. Thi3 year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hiaher than any part o? the Middle Island, .and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably leas raintfitll in. any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEHFERATtTRE.

'* No observations taken in South]and daring 1573 to 1876*. WALTER H. PEAKSON", Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland.

BUSINESS NOTICES JJ ODGE AND JOKES SADDLE & HAKJfESS MAKEES, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spare, Baggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collars of every description, and all other

Horse Appointments. N.B-~Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 J. 8. HEADLAND, GROCEB, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Hat on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Floor Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glaaswaro Earthenware Ironmongery Ac., &o. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large ■tack of First-claa3 Goods to choose from, a til LOWEST PRICE. GTJNS, CeriITOWDEE, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. 0. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Conrfc-hoase, TEAIIES.ST E£T, OiVaAKtr. 37 I I' I ■ "I. f ■" »—■ 1 —■ I ■ ' ■ ' ' rp H E OAU AK U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IS THE Counties of Waitaki, "Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Township?. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper is Otago published oatsiie . of Dtraedin. "]\TEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JLY 2. Now Dance Masic. B. W. Hayes, MusicjseiJer, Itchea-atreet.-