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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 26 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE -J- AND FOR SETTLEMENT. OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN F(>k SALE IN SOUTHLAND. „ , Wed Pavments 80,015 acres Under De. 35,000 acres T . *x- . "°urchase tor Direct, ith Bush, Land coveied beared, which, when nality is of superior q. ___ 300,000 acres for Agriculture - eD t land is 25s The price or deferred payn. and 303 an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to lv south of the latitude of the mouth or. - ■ Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles t the northward of the Clutha B.iver at l mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles doe south of the latitude of the Clutha, *TOrage height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to anv in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic inllnences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-claps oats and barley, and is 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 landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereaL All over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apurima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plainß and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from apy part of itj and timber, lime, and coal, can be distir buted all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of tho Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, 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 Invercargillbeingsituatedclose toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the plimate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops.- The experi ence of the last 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. This, year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and moat parts of the North Island, while there ha 3 been very considerably less rain fill than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. 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 COPpS 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 MATT.,