Page 4 Advertisements Column 2

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 30 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. 80,015 acres 35,000 acres 800,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase Land coveied ■with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... The price of deferred payment land is Zss and 30s an acre. The 1""* 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 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 oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby gnaWing the farmer to keep bis land jn perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green cropß 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 pp fertilise the land when it may require it. Formate 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 Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lujnsdem runs through the Waimea Plains 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 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 ac?e, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : ijje suDjomea guc me temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchutch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foygaux Straits isexposedto more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven Tpilpn due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard th£ Jand is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass aj)d root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agricpltpre the supply of rain by no means exceeds the re.quirements 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 than.in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TESEPERATURE, 1873 to 1870. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE A R 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 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 MATLQ A M