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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. ARTCA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN" SOUTHLAND. UndcrDeferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveicd 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 River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average 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 growingnot merely excellent ■wheat, but 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 cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke-p him independent of a !>ad market for any particular cereal. A ! 1 over the district there is firstcl~ss 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 beat 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 ; 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 tl'e 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, lim*-, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken fro to the statistics of the Colony for the year? 1873 to 187S, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : 'Jho subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercarjpll, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated 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, 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 agricnlture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the laud. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the NVrth Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * 2so observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTiOES 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.