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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1241, 9 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND fob settlement. area of agricultural land OPEN FOK SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UnclcrDefcrred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveicd with Bash, which, ■when cleared, ia of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30a an acre. The Imd is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of tho month of the Taieri River, nnd is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of tho Clntha River at its month, Invcrcargill being 3 milc3 dne sonth of the latitude of the Cluths, the. average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The avnrage quality of the soil is equal to any in t':c Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences i 3 capable of growingnot iiitwly excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising tumipsandartificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure bis landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke :p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A-'l over the district there is firstclass lime3tone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may iequire it. Forests of laree extent arc scattered over it, providing tinibers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the be.ifc brown coals) for fuel everj where obtainable. Ti:e district is further inters? cted by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mat-iura Rivera ; while a loop lice from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway atLumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joics the Invercargiil to Dancdin main lino at Gore, and a line through the Potest 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 tbß country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1573 to IS7S, as compared with Canterbury, are a3 follow :

o A - a2 j - o cs o iji w w w w Tha subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Cbri3tchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits i 3 exposed to more rainfall and sndden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut aloDg the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crop 3. The experience of the last few years leads to the convictioD that for all-round agriculture the scpply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the laud. This year, the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and moat part 3 of the Nf.rth Islaud, while there ha 3 been very considerably lcs3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AV£P_4OE TEJIPERATURF. * tfo observations taken in Southland during 1573 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Beard, Southland.

BUSINESS NQTi'QES OD G E AND JOKES "SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, V.'iiips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collars of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. 2s. B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 ~J. 8. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, FT»g on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wine; and ypirits Flour Oatmeal China . Cut and Pressed Glasswaro Earthenware Ironmongery m &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, th LOWEST PRICE. GUSTS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND

under tic Anas Act), the Conrfc-fconss, TliAifK S- S T EE T, 0 .UIAIiTT. i nn HE OA 11 All U MAI L. i PIIi'CE—ONE PENISY. CIRCULATED ]• XTENSiVELY IS THE C'ouiili s of Wsitaki, Waiciate, & Waikoaaiti Ag nts in ill the TowEship*. The Miil La? a larger cir- ulaticn ilian any jfkpsr in published. oattiie cf iJr.ncoiD. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Musicseller, Itchen-street.l