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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 9 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE f AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AttRA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bnah, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25a and 30a 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 the northward of the Clntha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, the average height above tlie 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; yrheaX, but first-class oats and barley, and is pepsljarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingofif his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal, 4-' l over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require }p. of large extent scattered oyer it r providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best-brown coals)'for fuel evary where obtainable. The-district- is further interarpted by railways, which.open np the great valleys qI Apj»riios v Pijeti, apd Matanra Rivers; while a loop knefrom the Invercargill to Kingston"Railway at' Lum3den» runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invisrcaj-gill to Dniedin main line at Gore, and a line through tb§ Fof est Hill District will be constructed shortly. Tops carriage of prpdnce fccTthe seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it ; and lime, and coal, c!an be distributed pjl Qvse the country at a minimum cost. The average yield ef cereals per acye, taken from the statistics of the-Colony for the year* 1873 to 1878, a» compared with Canterbury, are as follow : 3he subjoined tables give th 6 average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chnatcburch, the commercial centres of the district*. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is'exposedto more rainfall and sudden changesthan the interior of the district, only;seven miles duo north, where the climate is both drier and farmer, tot alone the whole fleaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and ropt crops,, The experience of thelast 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. the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North- Island, while there very considerably less rain-fall-than in any part of the Colony; AVERAGE TEMFERATITRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1878. 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, Waimatej and : Waikoti&iti, -it ia unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM;; in North Otago. • Farmers wishing , to .dispose of Stock, &c, shorold bear this fact in mind. HKT.T.TSRg OF STOCK AND FARM •'PROPERTIES ghffuld' take the fullest advantage of the publicity■ which its columns a£ord BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN ... THE MAIL.. ; I .UilLK&n ,Ji'i T-rwu