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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1238, 6 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOE SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGKICULTURAL LAND OI'EN FOR SALE IST SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,016 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covcied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... . . The price of deferred payment land is zoa and 30s an acre. 300,000 acres The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles irouth of the latitude of ths mouth 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 Clutha, 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 influences is capable of growingnofc merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and Jbariey, and is peculiarly adapted for raiding turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him indejiendenfc 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 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 district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, .and Mataura Hivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem 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 cost. The average yield of cereals par acre, taken frooi the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1573 to 1573, a3 compared with Canterbury, arc as follow :

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Danedin. and Chris tcknrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to Fovcaux Straits 13 exposed to more rainfall andsndden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles doe north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut aloDg the whole seaboard the land is exiremely fertile, and mnch prized for grass and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. Thi3 year the thermomaier at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most part 3 of the N;rth Island, while there has been very considerably les3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEJIPERATCRE. Southland.! Dnncdin. Christchurch 1565...: 1869... 1&70. IS7I - ISI-* 1577 . 45.7 50.9 49.9 50.Q •tO.O" 50.4 50 SU.S 50 50.3 51.4 5*3 52 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52.3

* Xo observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER n. PEARSON", Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands BUSSNESG NOTICES 0D G E AND JONES SADDLE Ic HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collare of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (Loth Wholesale acd Retail), Groceries of all kin da Wines and Spirits Hour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ircnmoagory 3^l Board, Southland. any pattern. 559 &c., &c.

Parties about to FURNISH have a Large atock of First-class Gooda to choose from, % th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, G I'NPOTVDEB, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A- J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oaiiaku. 37 T HE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED J-XTENSiVELY IK THE Coanti s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waitonaiti Ag< nts in all the Township?. The Mjil has a larger- circulation than any papar in Otago published oaUide of Dunediii. "\TE\V ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. J_li 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Musicseller, Itchen-strectJ