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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1275, 8 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOE BETTLBMENT. AREA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 3-5,000 acres Land coveied with Bash, ■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, Inveroargill 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-claps oats and barley, and is •peculiarly adapted for : raising tunaips 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 fieep 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. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the beat brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distrist is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Ureti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plainß and joins the Invercargill to Dtmedin main line at Gore, and a line through t>ie Forest Hiil District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard pr 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 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

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The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, aud Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituatedclose 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 aloDg the whole Beaboa'rd 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, • * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland, BUSINESS NOTICES I"|* 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. 859 J. & HEADLAND, . GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds "Winea and Spirits Hour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large

Btock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PBIOE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAME S- S T E ET, Oamaktj. 37 HE O A M A K U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. .CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IN THE Countits of Waitaki, Waiinate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships. ThesMail has a larger circulation than any paper in Oiago published outside of Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. "2. NVw ! liiti'.'c ?iIC. W. ILvvks, iiaitSuilur, llchuir-strcct.'