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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1223, 18 March 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN For: SALE IN SOUTHLAND. 80,015 seres 35,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase Land covered with Bash, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 teres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30s so acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles ■oath of the latitude of the month of the Taxeri River, and is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clntha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, th« 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, bnt first-elars 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 byfeedingofF bis green crops ■with sheep and cattle, and feerp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. of larjfo extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for baiLiing and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which opennp the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lnms•dem 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 of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum •coat. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the yoari 1573 to IS7S, a* compared with Canterbury, are as follow : oci3s -3 g 3 g a o"« 0G r o*» -«•» -w •** a o. co o § c« ei so co co a » aS an *H> «•» -M O t- CO S3 o J h ci ci n ce a e - . £ c a ct Q * O <72-* •5 O SO CI W K3 £ cc co co tc co co "5 -<• «3 -!• CO ® t-> 2 C« G* SO CO W M .5 a O °pS « H* m H* ~ O Ci 3D O £» § CI CI OS 93 99 CC 1 CO JO £bf €0 1* *0 » ac r» n r-» oo qo oo co co co The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and Cbnatchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated cloae toFoveaux Straits ia expo ted to more rainfall and sadden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much •prized for grass and root crops. The experi<ence of the last few years leads to the con■victxon that for all-round agriculture the wspply 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, and most parts of the Nerth Island, while there has been very considerably les3 rainfall £n any part of the Colony. AVK&AGE TEJIPERATTTRET. * No observations taken ia Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland.

BUSINESS NOTICES ODGE AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spara, Baggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collar 3 of every description, and all other

Horse Appointments. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 ~A J. i! HEADLAND, A. GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, TTTia on Sals (both Wholesale and Retail), Grocerio* of ail kin da Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware iEarthecwarf ironmongery &c., ftc. Paitk* aloocxt to FURNISH have a Large stock of Fiirst-elass Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICK -GUNS, G UirPQWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. S. HEADLAND {Licensed under the Anns Act), Opposite tha Coart-aooie, TII.AME3-ST EET, Oaitaro - . 37 T HE O .AMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY crtaz Counties o £ Waitaki, Waimate, & W aikoaaiti Agents in all the Township?. The Mall baa a lai "gcr circulation than any paper in Otagc published oaisile of I *traedin. T\TEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. jL/l 2. New Dance Music, B. W, Hayes, , Mojucsdler, Itchen-sti wL