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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1282, 17 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AND AREA OF vffßTCtf T<~R£ 0 ""N FO SALE I SOUTH- AND. 50,015 acres 35,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared,' is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 2os and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invereargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the average height above the Bea 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 graaseß, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect; heart by a rotation of cropping; mannre his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keap 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 district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apanma, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invereargill to Kingston Railway at Lujnsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invereargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through tlie Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap fpom 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 fro>n tbe statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invereargill, Dunedin, and Cbristchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invereargill beingsituated 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 aloDg 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 Invereargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and moat parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably les3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. IS6S IS72* 1577 * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES JJ 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. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds 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 PRICK GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. 0. S. HEADLAND (licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oasiaett. 37 rjpHE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED kXTENSIVELY IN THE Counti- s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships. The Mail lias a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published outtide of Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Musia. B. W. Hayes, MuaicacUer, Itchca-atreeM