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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1227, 23 March 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE r AND FOE SETTLEMENT. area of agricultural LAND OtEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, ia o! superior quality for Agricnltnre ... 300,000 acres The price ef deferred payment land is 2os and 30a an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the month 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 Cintha, the average height above the pea level being 200 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and f?flm c'imatic influence* is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips aad artificial grasses, thereby .nohling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of chopping ; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheen and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered overit, providing timbers for building and fencing, fioal (lignite and the best brown coals) for iuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreta, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line frpm the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Luj»3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Donedin main line at Gore, and a line through th« Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly* Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard o? market is easy and cheap from any part ot it ; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country st a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per aeye, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the yeara 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow ocd'S'3 5 et* .«i rbt r«f - o O! 03 O S M CI « « ga a £ l ,2 •S ci oo o o 2 g r* ©» PS W CI pa o i etrSS'S e; w r» e» « ;a so n n n n K ft as 5 O <a o£■ ?r\ 2 H-r «-tf CO C 5 2 ci CJ « 3 «-H» «H» <*H» t-H" 9? PP CO H C 4 CI c £ CC r- _ so & o cc £ <n ci ci cc <N <<s is ?© oc r* co to CO CO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedm, and Cbristcfeurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to morerainfall andsuddenchauges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely 'fertile, and mnch prized for grass and root crops, fhfl experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-roand agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the re. quirements of the land. _ This year the thermometer at Invercargill ha 3 averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVEBAGE TEMPEBATtTRK, 'Southland. Dunedin. Christchur,ah 1565... 1869. 45.7 50.9 1870 ..J 49.9 50 50. S 50 IS7I . J 50.0 50.3 52 52.7 52.6 52 1872* | 49.6 | 51.4 | 53.fi 1877..,! 50.4 1 50.3 t 52.3 * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of W&ste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES H 0D G E ASP JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness., and Collars of every description, and all other IIGK& Appointments. N.B. —Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Haa on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all Vftids Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large ■stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. 0. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under tho Arms Act), Opposite the Coart-houso, TIIAME S- S T EE T, Oakarc. 37 Til HE OA M A R U MAI L. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED hXTENS k V ELY IN THK Coantus of Waitaki, Waimate, &. Waikouaiti Ag. Nts in all the Township?. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published oat*i ie of Dunedio. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Mosicseller, Itchen-street.