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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1230, 27 March 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND 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 Bnsh, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres I The price of deferred payment land is 253 and 30a 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 month, Invereargill 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 lDflaences ia capableof 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 bis land in perfect heart by a rotation of- cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keip him independent of a bad market' for any particular cereal. All over the district there is firstcl..S3 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 distriot is,further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Creti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop Line from the Invereargill to Kingston Railway at Lnm3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invereargill 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 minimnrn cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken iron, the statistics of the Colony foi the years 1873 to 1575,.a3 compared witl Canterbury, are as follow : ia car cc CO *OO CO CO co oo The subjoined tables give the a vera £ temperature at Invereargill, Dunedin, an ChriatcV.urch, the commercial centres of tb districts. It may be remarked that Inve: cargillbeingsituated close to Foveaux Strail i 3 exposed to more rainfall and sudden charge than the interior of the district, only seve mttes due north, where the climate is bot drier and warmer, tufc-aloDg the whole se£ board the land is extremely fertile, and'muc prized for grass and root crops. The exper ence of the last few years leads to. the coi viction that for all-round agriculture tfa supply of rain by no means exceeds the ri quirements of the land. This year tl thermometer at Invereargill has average hizher than any part of foe Middle Islam and moat parts of the N. rth Island, will there has been very considerably less rail than in any part of the Colony. AVKRAGE TRMPEBATCRK. * No observations taken ia Southland dtirir 1573 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lane 33-1 Board, .Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES H ODGE AND JONEI SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddle Side Saddles, Whips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collars of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.B. —Colonial Saddles made to order 1 any pattern. Si J. 3. HEADLANI A. GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, ETaa on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail Groceries of all kinda V/ines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ircamoagiiy &C.J &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Larg stock of First-class Goods to choose from th LOWEST PRICK GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, ANI AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. 0. S. HE AD LAN I (Licensed, under the Anns Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES. ST EET, Oastahu. 37 T HE OAMARU MAIL PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED J XTENS.YELY -IN THE Cocnti, s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikoaaiti Ag. Nts in all the Township'. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published ouUide of Dunedin. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JLI 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hatbs, Musicseller. Itchen-street.