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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 July 1880, Page 4

-^fofTsale : .-y% y-A N~D —P O R-8-E-TT-LE-M-BOT, AREA OT 1 AGRTCULTORAL LAND OPF-N POR SALE IN" SOUTHLAND. . UDderDeferred Payments. 80,015 *crea For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied 'with Bush, •which, when /clewed, , / // is of superior quality for Agriculture ■ ' 300,000 acres The price of deferred pay/Dent.land is 2as and 30? an acre. . Y The landiafrbm"2omileanorthtol(*inll6s south of the latitude of the mouth of the -Ts*ieri Rivar, rand'is all friont2 to 38 mjl^ ; to the northward lot .thft plutha. Riverat ,ij» mouthy Invercargill txiiiig 3 miles doe south of the :lattffids of 'the;Clafch4, height! above the sea level being 250 feet. The average qnility of 'the'soil isegaal to dnyln the-Aua tralauiiaA Colonies,- andjfwijl. nlim«.f?h in&aences is capable of growing np| merely! excellent wheat, but first-class oats and m ■- i^j#arly-.adapted or enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by rptrtioa"of]propping; manure his land by feedingofif his graen flropß with sheep : and'cattie,-and .keep hfatt pendent of a bad market .for anyparfcieular cereal, AH over the district there is. firstclass limeat^no-crqpping out .to, fertilise tiie land whei| it may require it. _ of large extent .axe sj»tt«eed over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, andwal (lignite and the best brown. ao&) for fuel everywhere obtainable.- The distriot Sp- fyttberinjfcersecfcd'by railways, which open iip the grpat valleys • of' Apairima, Oreti, abd Mataura Rivers j while a loop line from the Invercfrgill tojKingstou Railjyayat-Lnms-dem runs through the Waijfl£a> Plains and joins the Invercargill to" Dunedin 'in line at' Gor£, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be c&bsfoiqted shortly. /Thus carriage of produce to tfae seaboard or market is easy and cheap' from any part of it; and timber, lime, and coal," "can" be distributed all over-the country at a minimum cost. ; ' • ■ " - i The i average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the .statistics of-tho,Colony foi the years 1873 to 1878, as "compared witl Canterbury-, are as follow : temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, ant Chnstchurch/tbe commercial centres of th districts. It may be remarked thafr-Inver cargfll jseing close.to Foveaux Strait is exposed to more rainfall and suddenchapge tliim the ulterior of ; the 'distriot, onlysevei miles due nqrth, where the climate Is botl drier and warmer, tut along the whole sea board the land is extremely fertile, and muc] prized for grass and root crops. The experi ence of the last few years leads 'to the con viction! that for all-round agriculture thi supply (of rain by no means exceeds the re quire mients of the land. - This year th thermometer at-Invercargill, has averagei higher than any part of the Middle Island and most parts of the North Island, whil there has been very considerably less rain fall t*"}" ™ any port pf the jOoljony. ;; i AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, Dunedin. Christchurcl 45.7 1863 50.9 1869 49.9 1870 ... 50.0 IS7I .49.6 1872* 50.4 1877 ... 50 50.8 50 50.3 51.4 50.3 ~— -r—T_ 52 , 52.7 52.6 52 *3.6 3 No observations t&ken in Southland durin 1873 to 1876. WALTER IL PEARSON* . Chief Commissioner of Waste Land 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES o THE AMARU MAIL PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF ; 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of thi Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Wai kouaiti, it is unquestionably the BESI ADVERTISING MEDIUM in Nortl Otago. . Farmers wishing to dispose o Stock, 4c, should bear this fact in mind. SELLERS OF STOCK AND. FARft . PROPERTIES . Should 'take the fullest advantage of thi publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING ; THEIR' SALES Hi THE MAIL. i . •/■•:,!! 'I J'!',; __ . a s.-n '• ' ■ ,:£t\ | '<'■■ .''i. :i •- A. it ■ 1 if <i /, , If; r , /- .i j <>:; yvjs:-t;»A;urr