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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acrea For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acrea Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acrea The price of deferred payment land is 25a and 80s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16mflea south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clntha River at ite mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Cintba, the average height above the Bea 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, bnt first-class 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 oropping; manure bis landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and him independent of a bad market for any particular cereaL Ail over the district there I« 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 Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers t while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem 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 distri-

bated all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per aore, taken from the statistics of tho Cplony for the years 1873 to 1878, a3 compared with Canterbury, are as follow : ■fl S w * rf» The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargul, Punedin, and Christcburch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foveauz Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, -where the climate is bqth drier and warmer, tut along 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 all-ronpd agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This ye#r the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parte of the North Island, while there ha 3 been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMTERATirRE. [Southland.l Dunedin. Cnnstchurch * Jfo observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEAKSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES AMARU MAIL,

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