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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1273, 6 May 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 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 south of the latitude Of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward, of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercafgill 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, auid 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 landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may-require it. Formats 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, o?eti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill £o Donedin main line at Gore, and a line through tVip Forest Hill District will be Constructed shortjy. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part ot 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 years 1873 to 1878j as compared with Canterbury, are as 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 beingsitnatedclose to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven mileß 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 moat parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVKBAGE TEMPERATtTRE, * No observations taken in Southland duping 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTSOSS I~y 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 jpade to order to any pattern. 859 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail),

Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cafe and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c. f &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from,

a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, 6LJITPOWBSR, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. 0. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), - Opposite the Court-house, ' THAMES. ST EE T, Oamartt. 37 T HE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED £XTENSIYELY IN THE Countus of Waitafei, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships. The Mail has a larger circulation than anypaper in Otago published outside of Dunedin. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. J. tI 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, liusicsclJer, lichwi itixet.'