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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1248, 17 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveted 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 latitude of thu mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clatha River at its mouth, InvercargOl 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 the 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 his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kerp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A-l over the district there is firstdhs3 limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may xequire it. 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 distriot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivera; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Donedin 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 distributed all over the country at a minimum cost.

The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from tlie statistics of the Colony for the yeaT3 1873 to IS7S, as compared with Canterbury, are a3 follow : cs 10 o t- oc oo CO 00 CO 00 oo The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargul, Dnnedin, and Chriatchnrcb, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingaitnatedclose to Foveaux Straits i 3 exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due 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 most parts of the North Island, while there ha 3 been very considerably les3 rainfall in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland.

BUSINESS NOTICES JJ 0D G E 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. 859 J. 3. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kind* Wines and Spirits Floor Oatmeal China Cafe and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &C* | &Ci Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock 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 under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oamabu. 37 rjl HE OA4IARU MAIL. PRTCE —ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED i XTENS'.VELY JS 111Z Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waifeouaiti

Agents in all the Township?. The ilifl has a larger cir-.u!ation than any papjr in published outiide of Dcmcdin. EW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Muein. B. W. Hayes, Muaicsellcr, Itchen-stroet.l .