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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 16 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGKICUi.TUBAL LAND OPFN KOK SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveted with Bnsh, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and J>o3 an acre.

The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its month, Invercargill beiDg 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-class qats and barley, and ia peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land byfeedingoff his green crops with fihjß.ap and cattle, aud ke.-p him independent of ? bad market for any particular cereal. Ail over the jiistrict there is firstclass limestone cropping out tp. 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 coals) for fuel even where obtainable, Tbe district is further interacted by railways, open Ujp the great valleys of Aparima, Creti, anu Mataora Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hiil District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or 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. The- average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for tbe yean 1873 to IS7S, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Inver<cargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits i 3 exposed to more rainfall and sudden chau ges 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 lartd 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 requirements cf the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hichsr than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been ver7 considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TE3EPERATURK. jSouthland. Dunedin. Christchurch IS6S ... 1869,.. 1570 1571 ... IS72* 1877... 45.7 50-9 49.9 50.0 49.6 50.4 50 ay. 8 50 50.3 51.4 50.3 52 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52,3 * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, {southland. BUSINEBS 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 the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL. •.I.: \adUi ,'> Ti^Ai tdiUouvi'" 3u Sx\> iK-dvl'Jjj ai G : ?w!'