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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1318, 28 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE L A AR: AND FOR SETTLEMENT. OF " GRICTJbTU.R AL LAND Ot'i-N FOR.SALE.IN' SODTALAIND. TJuderDeferred Payments Sojols acrea For Direct Purchase ... ' 35,000 acres Land coveted with Booh, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture 1 ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles nonth of the latitude of the. mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at it* mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of tlie latitude of tbe Clutha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the «>il is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, Mid. from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnip* and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and fee p bini independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firs feels sa limestone cropping on£ to fertilise the laoid when it may require, it. of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for. building and fencing, and cbal. (lignite and tbe best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable.; The di&triot is furslier intersected by railways, wbi'eb open up tlie great valleys of Aparima, ' Open, nod Mataura-Ri vers; while a loop.line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District wilt be constructed shortly. Thne carriage of produce to Ihe seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it ; and 'timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed air over thp country at a minimum cost. 'jhe average yield ef eereals per acre, takeniron the statistics of the Colony for the year< 1873 to 1878, a? compared with Canterbuiy, are as follow : z Gbf -P* ccs o co r— © 2 W w « co P5 (C 'pa o ® aW rif -+# Oo C£> O IN M W t) o L . S * O J CO r+f '"W -ff C 3* o fc r- o to €0 CO CO CO CO CO £ c: "5 c o ® -1* c:fc. ««!• Hi> C C 3 "t » O i?' s«mn w w w eq ' cc o CM -+f O' _ «

~ «c 10 «p 1> « r* r*- f> oo co GO 00 qd 90 r-4 w-t •—• T he. subjoined' tables give the average temperature at invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that InvercargiUbeingsituatedclose to Foveaux Straits is ex posed to more»amfall and sudden char ges tbau the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the laDd is ex tremely fertile, aud much prized for grass and root cropß. The experienceo- r the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agricnlture the supply of rain-by no means exceeds the '> equirements g{ the land. Tbis year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hizher than any part of fchg Middle island, aud most parts of the North J&Japfl, while there lias been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. average temperature. * No observations taken in Southland during 1373 to 1876. WALTER HT. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Beard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAMARU 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 OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take the fullest advantage of tlie publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.