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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1267, 29 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOB SETTLEMENT^ of agricultural land OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80*015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, ■which, when .cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acre 3 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 Clatha 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 fflet. 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, 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 byfeeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke:p independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there is firstclass limnstone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered oyer it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and cpal (lignite ""rl the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open np the great valleyß of Aparima, Greti, and Mataura Bivers ; 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 tbe Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or np ket is easy and cheap from any parj; 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 3 1873 to 1878, as compared with The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituated close to Foveaux Straits is 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 aloDg the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and mnch 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 moat parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland.

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