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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1235, 2 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE and foe settlement. area of agricultural land OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 253 id 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles rath of the latitude of the mouth of the aieri River, apd is all from 2to 38 miles to ie northward of the Clntha River at its loutb, Invercargill being 3 miles due south f the latitude of the Clutha, the average eight above the sea level being 250 feet, he average quality of the soil is equal to ay in the Australasian Colonies, and. from [imatic influences is capable of growingnot icrely excellent wheat, but first-claps oats nd barley, and is peculiarly adapted foi using turnips and artificial grasses, thereby nabling the fanner to keep bis land in erfecfc heart by a rotation of cropping; lanrtre his land byfeedingoff his green crops rith sheep and cattle, and ke.p him indeindent of a bad market for any particulai erral. A'l over the district there is firstlass limestone cropping out to fertilise the md when it may require it. ol urge extent are scattered over it, providing imbers for building and fencing, and coal lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel irery where obtainable. The distriot is fur;her intersected by railways, which open up he great valleys of Apatima, Oreti, and klataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the 'nvcrcargill to Kingston Railway at Lnms tcm runs through the Waimea Plains and oixss the Invercargill to Dunedin main lin< it Gore, and a line through the Forest Hil. District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or mar let is easy and cheap from any part of it ind timber, lime, and coal, can bo distri aated all over the country at a minimun :ost. The average yield of cereals per acre uiken froai the statistics of the Colony fo: ;he yeare 1873 to 1878, ai compared witj Canterbury, are as follow : eo ■«* » ts" cc r- i> i> co co 00 00 oo co The subjoined tables give the averag temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, am Christcknrch, the commercial centres of th districts. It may be remarked that Invei cargilibeingsitnated close-to Foveaux Strait is exposed to more rainfall and sudden chauge t r hnn the interior of the district, only seve: miles dne north, where the climate is bot drier and warmer, but along the whole sea board the land is extremely fertile, and mue prized for grass and root crops. The experi ence of the last few years leads to the con viction that for all-round agriculture th supply of rain by no means exceeds the re quirements of the land. This year th thermometer at Invercargill has average higher than any part of tbe Middle Island and most parts of the Ntrth Island, whil there has baen very considerably less rain fall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMFERATiTRF, * No observations taken in Southland durin 1573 to 1576. "WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Land 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES ODGE AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles Side Saddles, "Whips, Spurs, Bnggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collars of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.B. —Colonial Saddles made to order t any pattern. S5! J. S. HEADLAND GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sslo (both Wholesale and Retell) Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spiritß Flour Oaimcal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH bavo a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under tho Arms Act), Oppoaito the Court-hooss, THAMES.ST EET, OASTABIT. 37 rpHE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED >XT£NS.Y£LY IN THE Cocnti. s of Wnitaki, Waimate, &. Waikonaiti Ag- nts in all the Township?. Die Miil has a larger than any paper in published outride of Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B.W.Hayes, Uusicseller, Itcben-etrcet.;