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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1271, 4 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE ■JV AN i> FOB SETTLEMENT; AREA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR, SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 teres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied ■with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality . for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price ef deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles ■oath of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is.all from 2to 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 the Australasian Colonies.ana 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 fceep his , land in perfect heart by a rotation of propping; manure his landbyfeediogof? his greei* crops with sheep and cattle, and kesp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AU over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered overifc, 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 Rivers 5 while a loqp line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dnn'edin 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 fjronj 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 yeara 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : ■j tie subjoined laoiea give me average temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden charges 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 has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE.

Kb observations taken in Southland daring 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES jy OD 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.— I Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 859 J. S. HEADLANI>, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, ff«n on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all binds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c,, &o. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-clas3 Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY,

Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (lioensed under the Anna Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, OAMARU. 37 T HE OAMABU MAIL. PEICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IN THE Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in'Otago published outside of Dunedin. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. i.l 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Haybs, Moricwller, Itchen-etreet.l