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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1298, 4 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SAfcfe-- f JAN D FOR SETTLE MEN T, A-RTCA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Pr-v merits 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres 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 landis from 20 miles north to 16 mile's south of the latitude of 'th« " mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 mUeßto the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill 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 climatio 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 j manure his land by.feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kesp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AU over the district there is "firstclass limpstone cropping out to fertilise tilt, land when it may require it.; Forests of large extent are scattered over it, proyiding timbers for building, and fencing, and cpal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel every 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 from the Invercargill tp Kingston Railway dem runs through the Waipiea Plain* 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 ffom any part of it ; and timber, lime, and coal, esn 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, a3 compared with Canterbury, are as follow : js c c a O ® 3 c ecw •+» rtx CO Si C 3 fc— o »* M OJ TO OS OB «9 KB OW r« N X tD.O IM M M N -fji "W >-« i -W .-W t-W _ .... Tf o oo ® rCl W W W W tcri a cs o ■ £ C eW MW FW -S rH « aw -W W « to a t- t-- r— t- fCO CO CO CO 00 CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chrjstchureb, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Fovcaus Straits is exposed to more rainfall s.nd sjidden charges 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 tertile, 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 thermojneter 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 les3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVKEAGE TEMPEBATTJRE. JS73 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES O 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 afibrd BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MATT,.