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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1314, 23 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE r AND POR SETTLEMENT. ARE A. OF AO4 KICtJLTURAL LAND Of EN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 .acrea For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, ■which. when cleared, is of superior quality for.Agriculture ... 300,0TOaoreB. The price of deferred payment land is.26b and SOs an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of-the mouth: of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to tho-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 climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat," but first-olass oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted fpr raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfeat heart by a rotation of cropping j manure his. land byfeedingoff his green.crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.-p Jjjro independent of a bad market' for any particular cereal. A:1 over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forested of larjre extent are scattered over it, jirojnding timbers for building and fencing, and cpal (lignite and the beat ,brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable.. The district is further intersected, by, railways, open up the. great, valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Hirers; while a;lo#P line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway atLujj)sdem runs through the Waimea. Plainß and ( joins the Invercargill to Dnnedin main lipe at .Gore, and a lih.e.throngh the Forest Hill District will be .shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and-cheap from any of it ; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over -the country at a- mimmum cost. . * •• The average-yield of cereals-per 'acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the yearj 1873 to 1878, ai compared with Canterbury, are as follow : 'Jhe subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christohurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close toFoveanx Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes 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 fertile, 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 rer quirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Inyercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island; and most parts ot the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVSB4GK TEMPERATtTRE. 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAM AR U 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. SttT.T/RKH OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take' the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns a/Tord BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.