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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 17 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE __ FOR SETTLEMENT. \REA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND FOR SALE IN" SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied \Tith Busb, which, -when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The ]>ri;e of deferred payment land is 2os and 30s an acre. Til- land is from "20 miles north to 16 miles L -. al h r,f the latitude of the mouth of the River. and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the noitu*?ard of the Clutha River at i s month, Jnvera»rgill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of tiie Clutha, the average height above the £ca levei baing 200 feet. The average qualitv of the sou is to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not ejLceUo::t "wheat. I>ut first-class oats and barky, rsd is peculiarly adapted for ra .; in" turnii/S and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to k'-ep his land 111 beart by a rotation of propping: 1 mr.uure his hndhyUerlhgoff H-greeu crops vrith sheer and cattle, and ke p him mdependent of bad market for arty particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firatclss? iimesione cropping out to fertilise tho land when it may require it. Forests or ! -irpe extent arc scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the be3t brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distrijt is further inters -ciad by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apjirima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers : while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdeni runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the InvorcargiH to DunecKn main line at Goro, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or n>aifeet 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 ceroals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1573 to 1878, a? compared with Canterbury, arc as follow : J XIB JSUHjumeii «"« temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Ohristchurch, the commercial centres of th>districts. It may be remarked that luvercargillbeingsituatedclose toFoveaux 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 ftlouj* 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 alLround 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 Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably lcs3 rainfall ths.u in any part of the Colony. AVKB/.O"! TEMPKnATI-r.E. 18; 3 to iSTb". WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Conns.icsionor i>l V> Laiids 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, TYaimate, and aikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. Farmers wishing to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear fc is fact in cijnd. 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.