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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1305, 12 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. ARRA OF AGUICU TT7RAL LAND OPEN FOK, SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality 1 for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price ©f deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of +<h" mouth the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutba River at its. mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, tha 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 fanner to keep his Japd in perfeot heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keap Jiim 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 bfown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the groat valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Risers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston at Lumsdem 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 the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of 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 from the statistics pf tfee Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden eh an ges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due nortb, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass ajjd 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 tiie Middle Island, and most parts of the N< rth Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AYEBAGE TEIIPEEATUKE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON", Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

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