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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1315, 24 June 1880, Page 4

FOB SALE AND FOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres^ For Direct Purchase 35,000 acres Land coveied. witk Buab, . _ - which,. ia ofvropcrioir quality for Agricoltfare ... 300,000 acres The prioe of deferred payment land is 25s and 30a anacre. . The land is from 20 miles north to IGndlea south-pf the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is ill from 2 to 38 milea to the . port hwaurd of the_ Clntha River- ffc.Ua, month, invercargill being 3 miles dne of the latitude ofthe Ciutha, the average height, above the sea level being SoO. feet: The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies,'and from climatic influences ia capable of growing-noi merely excellent wheat, bnt first-cla*s oats and bailey, and is peculiarly adapted' for raising tu mi pa and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart- bv a rotation, of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and .cattle, and ke~p hinvuidependent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there ia iiretclasa limestone.cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best' brown eoala) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriot is further intersected by railways, which .open up the .great valleys of Apanma. Creti, and Katun Rivers ; while a loop lino-from the Inyercargill to Kingston Railway at' Lumsdem. runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Ipvercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and £ line through the .Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce, to the seaboard fir market is easy and cheap from'any part ot it_; and- timber, lime, .and coal, can. be distributed all over the country at-a minimum cost. . f.; « . •' The average yield of cereals par acre, taken from the statistics of the Cglony for the year* 1873. to 1.878, ai compared with Canterbury, are as follow CO Tf O to t— CO •t-» r—op oo •cp co oo -oo

The subjoined tables gjve -the average temperature at Invercargill, JJanedjn, and Chriafcchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Inver*. cargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sadden chao ges than the interior of the district, only seven miles doe porth, wjjere the climgte is both drier and 1731*0161*, tut aloDg the wholo sea* board the is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the con* viction that" for all.round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This yesr the thermometer at Invercargill h&3 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 tho Colony. ATSBAGB TEMPERATURE. Southland. Dunedin. Chrisfcchurch 50 o2 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52.3 1863 48-7 50.9 49.9 50.0 49.6 50.4 50.8 1869.. 1870.. 50.3 1871 51,4 1872* 50.3 1877... * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. - BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAM AB 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; . SELLERS OP STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE if ATT..