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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1232, 30 March 1880, Page 4

L AND FOB SETTI«^ :MENTi AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAi> OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covei ed 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 2to 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 al:ove 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-cla?8 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; iniaure his land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kfi-p him pendent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A:1 over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping- out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of larpe 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 np the great valleys -of Aporima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway 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 bo 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 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chriatckurch, 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 along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The cxperi ence of the last few years leads to the con' viction that for all-round 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, and moat parts of the NVrtn Island, while there has been very considerably less, rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. 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, Spurs, Buggy 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. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, * th LOWEST PRICE. SUNS, G UITPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. k. 0. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAME S. S T EE T, 0 Air A EC. 37 r HE OAM AR U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IN THE 'oanti sof Waitaki, Waimate, it Waikouaiti Ag nts in all t'jc Township'. "icMjil ha-; a larger circulation than any papar ia Otaro published outside of Dancdia. ypEW ZEALAND.MUSIC ALBUM, No. - » 2. New. Dance Music, iB. W. Hayev, [tifricseller, Itchen-strecfc.j