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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1301, 8 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE : AND FOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND Open for bale in SOUTHLAND. " Under Deferred Payments *0,015 ncres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acrea Land coveted with Bush, •which, when - cleared,• ia of superior quality ' for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre.

Thp land is from 20 miles north, to 16 miles sooth of the latitude of the mouth of tlie Taieri River, and is ali from 2 to 38 miles tothe northward ot thp Clat'oa River at itß mouth, Invercargill beicg 3 miles Hue south of the latitude of the Clutha, tb average height above the sea level The average quality-of the Boil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first- 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 ImiMing 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 Arjarima, Preti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from'the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedip main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hiil District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of' produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from acy part of it; and timber, lime, and coa!, can bs distributed all over the country at- a minimum cost. The average yield o* cereals per ?.cre, taken from the statistics of the Cpiony for the years 1873 £<-> 5378, a=. compared with Canterbury, are as follow 'J he subjoined iaoles give -'he average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the cmnmei cial cfciiT,res of tbc districts. It may be rema-ked thai Tnver-cargillbeingsittisfc-idcl-rise to "vesux -tr '.i 1 s is exposed to moro > ainfaU aivl sn'isJ fha; than the interior «>; 'he dist-ru.;. seve:-. miles due north, u'her- ; ihe el;:. at' i: hot!, drier and warmer, tut aloDg "hi- -.'-hole suuboard the land is extremely fordle, and much priced for'giass apd root crops. The ►xperv encaof the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no mean* 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. AVSBAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to IS7G. WAuTER 3. PFARSOjST, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, aouthlaud. BUSiNi IG&.8

THE AMARU MAIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OP 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Waikonaiti, 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 tako the .fullest advantage of the publicity whioh it 3 columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.