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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1242, 10 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE ID FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 50,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveicd 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 sooth of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clntha River at its month, Invercargill being 3 miles dne south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average height above the tea 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-class oata 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 rotatiou of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke;p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All 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, pro viding 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 Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at !Lnm3detn runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District wfll be constructed shortly. Thuß carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it_; and timber, lime, and coal, can bft 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 year 3 1573 to 1878, a» compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

CJ~» -H H* Hfl O O CC to "*£ ci pi « « w w Ihe subjoined xaDies give uiu »»ci«igo temperature at Invercargul, Dnnedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeuigsituated close to Fovcaux Straits i3exposed to more rainfall andsudden 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 conviction 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 most parts of the Ncrth Island, while there has been very considerably les3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMI'EBATCKE. Southland.} Dunedin. Christ church

* o observations taken in Southland during JS73 to lSTti. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES TT 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. Is.B. Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (fcoth Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour datmeal fftiiaa Cut a&£ Pressed Glassware

.Earth enwarp JLroaznoagery &c., &o. F 'artiea about to FURNISH have a Large stock of Firat-clas3 Goods to choose from, a th. lowest PRICE. GUNS, CL'NPOWDKR, SHOT, AND AMJIUNTTION generally, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (license 1 under the Arm* Act), Oppoa ite the Court-house, TH A Ji! ES• S T EET, Oamaku. 37 T HE O.AM AR U MAIL. PRICE- -ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED !• XTENSIVELY £* THE Countiis ot Waitaki, aimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all "the Township?. The ils.il hai a larg>2r c than any paper in Otsgo published outside of Ihme<L : n. IKTBW ZEALAND MUS.TC ALBUM, No. JLI 2. New Dance Musieu B. W. Hayes, Muaics eller, Itchen-street.l