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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 23 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE T AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bash, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and ."ills an acre. The land is from 20 mile 3 north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 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-clarg oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses; thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect teflrt by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheeD and cattle, and ketp him independent of a bad market far »ny particular cereal. All over the district ttteie js firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may lequira it. _ of large eitenfc jire scattered over it, providing timber* for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the bcA brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. Thg distriot is further intersected by railways, u open up the great valleys of Aparima, Ofeti, and Mataura Rivers : while a loop line from tbe Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dnnedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will ba constructed shortly. T}iU3 carriage of produce to t}ie seaboard or mar--1 ket is easy and cheap ffom any part of 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 .the years 1573 to IS7B, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : JXI6 SuDjOinea lauiea temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatedclose to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden chaDges 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 land 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 of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall t han in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. 1573 to 1576. 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, Waimate, and Waikouaiti, it 13 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 TH HI MATL.