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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1312, 21 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80 ( 0I5 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000"acres The pri ia ef deferred payment, land is 25s and3osan.acre.;, r • i • The land is friom 20 miles nor'-h to 16 miles south of the latitude ofthe in on thf of the.' Taieri Riv«r, and is all from.2 to3B milesto the northward. of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the] average.' heightrabove the sea level Wng 250-feet. Theaverage quality of the sou w equal to »ny fn ihft Anafamlimiim Colonies. and from climatic-influences ia capable of growingnofc merely, excellent wheat, out firet-clafs oats and T barleyj'ind is peculiarly* adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to Jceep his land in perfect heart, by a rotation, of cropping;, manure his land byfeedingoff his green crops with sheep said cattle, and kesp himindependentof a bad market er any particular cereal. . All over the district there is firstclasa limestone cropping out to fertilise the -land when it may require it. Forests .of large extent are scattered; OTerit f providing timbers Tor building and fencing, aiid coal (lignite and the best brown - coala).foc fuel! obtainable.. .The .distria£. i* for* tber intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataora Rivers ■•while a loop linefromthe Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and jeans the Invercargill to main -line' at Gore, and a line through the Fopeat Hill District will be.constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market ia"-easy and cheap from any part of it ; and timber,~"lhnef and- -can--be- distributed all over the country ata minimum coat.;. ; The average "yield of cereals per acre, taken from tbe statistics of the 'Colony for the .'year*. 1873 .to 1878,» compared witk Canterbury, are as follow cs ia co oo r* i> N t"*» S ; oo oo "ao oo oo oo The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Cinistchnrch, the .commercial centrea of the districts. . It.m'ay be remarked that Invert cargillbeingsitnatedclosetoFoveau'x Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden ch ae ges. than the interior of -the district, only seven iß»les_due:north, w.hefe the. climate t bpth, and warmer, tut along, the whole aeaboard the land is extremely fertile, andmnch prized for- grass and root crops; The rxperieocejof the last fewyeara.leado to. the, conviction that for all-round agricnltu're ' tho sopply of rain by no mean* exceeds-the-'re-quirements ; of .the lanjL This year the thermometer at has. averaged hiiiher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the Nc.rth-Island, while there baa been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVBIUGE TfiJEPEBATTTRE. * 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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