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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1244, 13 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE 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 south of the latitnde of the 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 tie Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growingnot merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep hi 3 land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad. market for any particular cereal. Ail 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 timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further interacted by railways, which open up the gTeat valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimoa Plains and joics the Invercargill to Dnnedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the teaboard 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 par acre, taken frooi the statistics of the Colony for die year* 1573 to IS7S, as compared with Canterbuiy, are a3 follow : GO es o o c cc r» c: us w W JO CO w w o O 2 CI W P3 w w w « i« N « r-» £*» fCO CO CO CO GO CO

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chris tehurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sadden char.ges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, -where the climate is both drier and warmer, hut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely feriile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-roand agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill ha 3 averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the there ha 3 been veiy considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEjrPERATCRE. South iand.j Dunedin. |c!hristchnrch * 2fo observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINES3 NOTICES || Q D G~E AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spun:, 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. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Winca and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware

Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large atccfc of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed cxidcr the Arras Act), Opposite the Gocrt-nouae, THAME S- S T EET, Q.w.ah r. 37 rp H E OA.M AR U AIAI L. PRICE—ONE PESTN'Y. CIRCULATED i XTEN3.VKLY IS THE C'ocuti sof Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikonaiti Ag nts in til the Township'. The M»il hai a larger cir. u!ation than any japor in Ot;>£o published ontiile cf Dane din. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayjm, Mosicscller, Itchen-streeM