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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1302, 9 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE X AND FOR SETTLEMENTv area op agricultural land OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80j015 acres For Direct Purchase acres Land ooveisd "with Bush, which, when ia of 'atlpenbr quality for Agriculture r ... 800,000 acres The price ef/deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. '

The land is from 20 miles north to 1(5 miles south of the latitude of th-. month of the Taieri River, and is all t'rom 2 to 38 miiea to; the northward oi the Clutfca River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, thy 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, is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the fanner to Keep his lapdin perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure Ha landby feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for 'any particular cereal. All over the .district there is firstclass limestone cropping out tft fertilise theland when it may require it. Forestß of large extent are scattered oyer it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and tfcs best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable, Tbp is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Bivers ( while a lo.op line frpm the Invercargill to Kingston Railway- at Lujusdem runs through the Waimea 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 ihe seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it; and timber, lime, apd coal, e§R 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 187S to 1878, a? compared with Canterbury, are as follow j ije suojojneu iauj.ee iifp temperature at Inverpargill, I)nnedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that lavercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden char,gey than the interior of tlje distfigt. only seven miles dne north, where the climate is t<oth drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and umefc prized for grass and root orop*. The -xperienoe of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requires eots of the land. This year the thermometer at Ipyereargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Inland, while there has been very considerably less rainfall +.Vi»ti in any part of the Colony. AVEBAGB TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Copjmisaioner of "Waste Lands 334 JJoftrd, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

THE QAM AR U 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 take the fullest advantage of the publicity whioh its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.