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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1246, 15 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOB 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, u of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30b 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 Clatha River at its mouth, Invercargill beiDg 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, th« average height above the sea 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, hut -first-clays oats 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 rotation of cropping; m.mure his land by feedingoff hia green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p him independent of a had market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstcliag limestone cropping ont to fertilise the land when it may require it. of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the boat brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, (Jrefci, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumadem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedlii 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 of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum coat.

The average yield ot taken froix the statistics the yearj 1873 to IS7S, Canterbury, are as follow cereals per acre, of the Colony for as compared with • I 30 Mrs I [5 i» o* § J = «" ° M- =2 O CO t— C 3 Cl os e»s ps eo ■2 ' .2 o •§ ° 5 r-i c> ci sc P3 e» ec-tf S-si _2 es = = 2? « 3 « 3 C 3 £3 5 » c s «3 < o I JL S CI e -f-£ r*t «•+■? C 5 OJ O _ - cc n w w 5 ~ c o-°« 2 «-j> ®i> >-BI r+f •r O Ci * o 5 ei ci n « w |S o =>> ■C " = 00 OS 00 00 00 The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Inverpargill, Danedin, and Chris tchurch, tbe commercial centres of the. districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foreaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall andsndden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, tvliere the climate is both drier and warmer, tufc alone the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for gTass and root crops. The experience of the la3t few year 3 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 lcs3 rainfall than ie any port of the Colony. AVSEAGE TEiIPERAnTKK. * 2so observations taken in Southland during 1573 to IST 6. WALTER IT. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 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. 559 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Salo (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of fill kinds Winsa snd Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthen-wax? Ironmongery &.C., &o. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large afcock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under tha Arms Act), Opposite tho Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oajiaru. 37 rjIHE OA&IARU MAIL. PRICE-ONE PENiS'Y. CIRCULAI ED i XTENS.YELY Ei THE Counties of Woitaki, Waimate, & Waikonaiti Agents in all the Township*. Ths Msil hai a larger circu!ation than any papir in Ocaco published outeide of DcnediD. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JL\ 2. New Dance Music. B.W.Hayes, Musicselier, Itchen-streetJ