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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 15 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT! AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Utitferßeferred 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 253 and 30s 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 Clntha River at its month, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the average height above the sea level being 230 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences iB capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turuipe and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff hjs green crops with'sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular ccrcal. Ail over the district there is first-cl.-.ss limestone cropping out to fertilise the land -when it may require it. Forests of l.irge extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) fop fuel everywhere obtainable. The district id further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loon line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line thrpngh 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 p6P acre, taken from tno statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1873 to 187S, a3 compared with Canterbury, are as follow {-*- i; rt* r±f -= C2> C 5 CO t— O S3 3* <5 X r~i « C 5 co o cj C-J cc oo d C S s s cj* co si? E gsci 2 w* -*» »+# <s&» - o CO O N ,5 CI C'l « « W (N 2www w « w 5 & s-° K CC 1.-5 O N CC N r* hCO CO CO (O GO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chrfstehcrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsitnatedcloje toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall ftnd sgdden changes than the interior of the district, pnjy seven miles (fue north, where the climate Is both 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-round agriculture the supply 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 Jsland, and most parts of the North Island, yhile there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVKRAGE TEMPER AT 17T<K. iSouthland.| Dunedin. Christchurch 15G5...1 15G9...1 1870 ... IS7I -i IS72* r 1577 ...| 45.7 50.9 49.9 5(1.0 49.6 50.4 50 50, § 50 50.3 51.4 * 50.3 52 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52,3 * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576". WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 JSoard, 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 Waikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM 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 MAIL.