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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 21 August 1880, Page 4

">'7-Y".v t" AND FOB SETTLEMENT;; Xi e : :*••• >—' r. .\ >• <>' •*" ATtttA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres 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 30s an acre. The land is from ,20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the month of the Taieri'-Eiver, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its month, Invercargill being 3 miles due sonth of the latitude of the Clutha, 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- 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 byfeedingoff his green- cropp with sheep and cattle, and ( ke-phiminde-■pendent of a bad'market for any particular cereal. AH aver the district there is-first-class limestone cropping out. to fertilise the land when, it may it. of large extent are scattered ovGj: it. providing timbers for building and. fencing, ulna coal (lignite and the best brdwn coals) fop fuel everywhere obtainable.. The.4istj3at is'-fur-ther intersected by railways,-, which open np the great valleys of Apsrirna, Oyeti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lnmsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and 2 line tjjrotigh the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. * Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard- or market's 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 Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, a3 compared with Canterbury, are as follow: v-* - rr." cw -+f rr eo o co r— o 2 ci ci w n ra

The subjoined tables give, the average temperature at Invercargul,' Dunedin, and Christchnrcli, the pommercia! centres of the districts. It may be remarked that InvercargillbeingaifuatedcloEe to Foyggux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sadden chaD ges 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 graas a»d root crops. \The experience of the last few ye»x a leads to the conviction that'for' all-round agriculture the supply of rain by na means* fexceeda fche requirements :of the. ;land.: This iyear 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 conjntLeratily less rainfall than in" any pairfc of .the Colony. AVERAGE TKMPEBATOT^. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

THE Q A MARU 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 it 3 columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN TTTK AT ATT..