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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1281, 15 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE q and for settlement. AREA OF -UUiICU Tf'ltAL LAND OPEN KOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. *0,015 -icres 35,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase Land coveied with Bnsb, •which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30a an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri Biver, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Glutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, 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 land byfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke-p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All 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 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 ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lujnsdem runs through the Waimes Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin 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 from any pari of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed ajl over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acpe, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : no B J> t"" r* ir-» CO CO CO 00 CO 00 The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dilnedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituatedclpse 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 ic drier and warmer, tut along the whole sea:e board the land is extremely fertile, and much d prized for grass and root crops. The experience of the last few years "leads to the con3, viction that for all-round agriculture the d supply of rain by no means exceeds the re>r quirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged ie 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 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES ODGE 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. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all k'nda Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. S. HEADLAND A, J. (licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-housa, THAMES-ST EET, OAMABTJ. 37' rjp H E OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED LXTENS iVELY IN THE Countits of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Township 3. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Ocago published outside of Dunedin. "VTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JJi 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Haees, Musicseller, lichen-streets