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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 August 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOE SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND " M«*KN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. 80,015 acres 35,000 acres Under Deferred Payments For Direct Purchase Land coveied with Bush, ■which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 30a an acre. The land 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 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 land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, &nd kerp him independent of a bad market for any particular n*rgnT AH 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 3nd the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district 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 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 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 acre, taken from the statistics of the Ciolony for the year 3 1873 to IS7B, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow o i. . _S c a £ o * rr" CO l> O 5 CO CO CO CO ew ew 'W »+# or- oo co © i-> C* ©4 CO CO C* * Ss f/m ' iv ' v; ■ y. ■ i O CO r- Ci io 2 CO CO CO CO CO CO _£ o « o > C* C* CO CO c* d O' 2 -f-? O? eS* H* *+f - CO o o* -= Cl o s >» aQi C* CO CO CO CO C2 CJJ r+f CO © 00 CI « P? CO CO io O 00 r-* CO CO CO 00 CO CO

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at InvercargUl, Dunedin, and Chriatcharcb, the commercial centres of the districts, it may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituatedolose toFovedux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and -warmer, tut aloDg 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 aiL-rqund agriculture the supply of rain by no means the requirements of the land. This yegx the thermometer at Invereargill 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. AVBBA£E TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland duping 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 is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. Farmera 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.