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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1240, 8 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE T AND FOB'SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOII SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UcdorDjfcrrcd Payments £0,015 acres For J/irecL Pnrcha=c ... 35,1)00 acres Lar.il co vol til villi Hush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25a and 30s an acre.

The land Li from 20 miles north to IS mile 3 south of the latitude of the mouth of the '•'aieri liiver, ancl is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its month, 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 aoy in tJe Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing nob merely excellent wheat, hut first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in jwjrfect- heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfecdingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent 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 large extent are scattered over it, providing tirobsrs for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best Lrown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Creti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Kailvray at Lumsdem runs through the Waime& Plains and joir.s the Invercargill to Dunedin main line .it 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 be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost.

The average yield of cereals per acre, taken fron the statistics of the Colony for the yeori 1873 to 187S, a? compared with Canterbury, are as follow : k if no i— te r— i** i*» CO 'JG CO GO CO CO 'llia subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargdl, Dnnedin, and Christehurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sadden 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 experience of the la3t few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agricnltnre 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 tne Middle Island, aad most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably lcs3 rainfall than iu any part of the Colony.

AVZRAGE TEMPEBATITRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 167 G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Wastelands 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. SSO 7. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Haa on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of fill kinds Win S3 and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut sad Pressed GlaESTvaro Earthenware Ironmongery &.C., &.C. Parties ahout to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICK GUNS. GUITPOWDER. SHOT. AND

AMMUNITION GENERALLY, A. 0. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Coirt-hcuss, THAME S- S T EET, THICK—ONE PENNY. CIRCC LA'i ED ) XTEN3 .YiLLY IS THE Cjunti.s of Wsitaki, V.'aiacit;-, & Vraikoaaiti Ag-nta in nil the Towr.sbip?. The Msil has a larger cu\ u'ation than any paper in published outside of Dnnsdia. "VfEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. jL> 2. New Dance Music. li. W. Tf <yw j Muaicacller, Itchcn-atrcet.J Always in stock. OA'fAHE. 37 O A M A II U AIAIL.