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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1274, 7 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOB. SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGKIGUI.TrjPAL LAND OPEN F.'irl KALE IN SOUTHLAt-fIX Under Deferred Payments £o,Glo :;re3 ; For Direct ?nrebate ... -icres ; Land coveied tvith j which, when cleared. | is of Enperif!? .jns:ity for Agriculture ... 300, OUO acres The price of deferred payment land i 8 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles eonth 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 month, Invercargili 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 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 wth sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A:1 over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests oflarge extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everj where obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line fr,om tjje Invercargili to Kingston Railway at Lnmsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargili to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hiil 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 years 1873 to IS7S, aa compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargili, Dunedin, and Christchurcli, the commercial centres of th* districts. It may be remarked that lavercargillbeingsitnatedclose to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden chat) ges 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 Invercargili has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Maud, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfull than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TKMPERATUUE. * No observations taken ia Southland during 1873 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland, BUSINESS NOTiOfcS yj 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.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 J. a HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Grocorio3 of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery fee., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE,

SUNS, GUJTPOWDEE. SHOT, AISTD AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. L. 0. S. HEADLAND (licensed under the Arms Act). Opposite tho Court-houßo, THAMES-ST EET, Oamaext. 37 r HE OAM AR U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED IXTENSLYELY IN THE ountits o£ Waitaki, Wairaate, & W aikouaiti Ag:nts in all the Towusliip?. he Mail lia3 a larger circulation than any jpapsr in Otago published outside of Dunedin. kTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. Nf-iV P.UIX: \\\ Jf AViSi, , 1 -si.VOE.'-