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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1317, 26 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE L AN D FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPKN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 i For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Load coveied with Bush, which, : whencleared, is of superior quality ' for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The prioe of deferred payment land is 25s and 30* an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south, of the latitude oftha mouth of theTaieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward ofthe Clntha River at its month, Invercargill hong 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, 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 growingnot merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling 7 the' farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping ; manure his land byfeedingoff his green .drops with sheep, and cattle, and ke-p him independent of a bad market for any particular oereaL AlLoverthedistrict,there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require 'it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbeis for building and fencing, and.cOal (lignite and the best Brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great -valleys of_Aparima, "Oreti, and Uataora Rivers; while a loop line fromthe InvercargilL to Kingston Railway at Lnmsdemruns throagh the Waimra.Pluns.and~ joins the Invercirgiirtd Danedin main line at Gore, and a line through the. Forest Hiil District will be shortly. Thus carriage of produce tothe aeaboard or mar-, fcet i* easy and cheap from any part of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at' a minimum coat. -j - The. avenge yield, of cereals per acre, taken' frooa~the atatistica Of the Colony for the year* 1873 to 1878, a* oompared with Canterbury-, are aafollow c>s . us. to t- oc N b* 00 QO 00 00 00 00

Ihe subjoined tables give the average temperatuie at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and Chnatchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that InvercargfllbeingsitoatedcloaetoFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden charges than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, whfere the climate is both drier and warmer, tat along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and mnch prized for gnus and root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction'that for all-round agriculture thesupply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, aad most parts of the North I*land, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVSBACK TEHPERATTTRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H.PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAMARU MAIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of tho 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 OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take the fall est advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALEB IN THE MAIL.