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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 8 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOE SETTLEMENT. ARK A OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UndcrDoferred 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 1G 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 month, 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 soU. is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growingnot merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby gnaMing the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landby feedingoff his green crops 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 to fertilise the land when it may require it. _ 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 distnofc is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apanma, Oreti, and Matanra 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 Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

The subjoined, tables give the average temperature at InveroargUl, Danedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centreg of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituated close to Foveaux 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, hut along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass apd root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the snpply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements 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 ha 3 been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TKMPEBATtTRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAMARU 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 Waikonaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIU& in North Otago. Farmers wishing to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear t is 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 MATT.,