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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1247, 16 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA'OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UnderDcferred Payments 50,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covcied with Bash, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 253 and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of ths mouth of the Taieri River, and i 3 all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its month, 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 t'ae Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-class oat 3 and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnipsandartifici.il grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect- heart by a rotation 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. A'l over the district thero 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 intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Eivere ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Danedin 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 cost.

The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year j 1873 to IS7B, a? compared with Canterbury, are a3 follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to Foveanx Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sndden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is 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 mo3fc parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in aoy part of the ColoDy.

AVERAGE TFMPERATITRE. Soaih! Dnnedin. Christchurch * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES JJ ODGE AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collare of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.E.—Colonial Saddles made to order to I any pattern. 859 A J. S. H E A D L A N D, 21. GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, flaa on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wlaet and Spirits Flonr Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Esrihecvrarp Irciuaongary &c., See. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, G CJIIPOWDE.It, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock.

A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under tha Arms Act), Opposite ihe Cocrt-houao, THAMES.ST E E T, OAT.ASV. 37 np HE OA MA R U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PEXJSY. CIRCULATED ; XTEX3.YELY IS THE Connti s os Waitaki, Waimst?, it Waikoaaiti Agrnts in ill the Towcship'. The Mail ha 3 a larger circulation than any paper in Oiago published outiide of Dnnedin. EW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hates, Muaicsclier, Itchen-atreet.l