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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1243, 12 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR 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 Bash, 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 south 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 moatb, Invarcargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in tie Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-clars oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artiflcial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure hi 3 land by feedingofF his green crops with sheen and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there is firstclj93 limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Fore3ts of large extent are scattered over it, providing tiu.bera for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everj where obtainable. The distnot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Ureti, and Mataura Rivera ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsilem 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 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 frou the statistics of the Colony for the yeara 1573 to IS7S, a3 compared with Canterbury, are 33 follow : r— i— i— i— t— r—co co ao CO CO CO

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Donedin, and Chnstchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsitnated close toFoveanx Straits is ex pos ed to more rainfall and sudden charges than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut aloDg the whole seaboard the land i 3 extremely fertile, and much 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. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TE3IPEKATCT.E. * Iso observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland.

BUSINESS NOTiOES yy 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 Horee Appointments. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 859 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Ha 3 on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Grocsrie3 of all kinds Winos and Spirits flour Catmcal China Cut and Pressed Glas3\varo Ewtheawar? Ironsicn gery &0., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, G CI7FOWIXER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY.. Alv/ay3 in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Anna Act), Opposite tho Court-house, THAMES-ST EE T, OAUAr.tr. 37 rp JI K OAM AR U MAI L.

PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED i-XTENSiVELY IN TII£ Cocnli sof Wsitaki, Waimate,& Waikouaiti Ag nts in all the Township'. The M_il liai a larger circulation than any papor in Ota&o published ouitiJe of Dcncdin. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. XN 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Mnsiceeller, Itchen-Btreet.l