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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1294, 31 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AG [<ICU ;-TUBAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND.. 80,015 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 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of ths mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Oiutha, tho 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 ia perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green croj-s with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l 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 distriat is further intersfcted by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Greti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill io Kingston Railwav at Luimdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin ream line at Gore, and a line through tV>e 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, ran ba distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield ot cereals par acre, taken froTi the statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1873 to 1.878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : 'J he subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close toFoveaux 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 Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of tne Middle Island, and moat parts of the North island, wiiiie there ha 3 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 Board, Southland. 334 BUSINESS NOTICES THE AMARU MAIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Waikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. Farmers wishing to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear this fact in mind. SELLERS OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL. [A CAED.] R S. BRUNTON Will resume her JUVENILE.DANCING CLASS ' At her . Residence, Eden-street East, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st INST., at 3.30 p.m. c OLONIAL BOOT T H AMES-STUB c.T, MA R T Having purchased in Dunedin, at DISCOUNT OF 50 PER CENT. From manufacturers' prices, I am prepared to offer the same to the residents of Oamara and district, at prices fully one-third lower than those usually charged by the trade. Inspection invited. Competition defied, G. W. lILVCHLIFFK, Colonial BOOT MART, Thames-street, Oamaru. 347 IVTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. i il 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Muflicsellor, Itchen-street.l I