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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 24 September 1880, Page 4

for sale t and foe settlement. ARTCA OF ACRICULTtTRAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. tJnderDeferred Paymeat3 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covcied with Bnsh, „ which, when jleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land ia 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 Biver 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 soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not 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 landby feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kesp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstda sa limestone cropping ont to fertilise the land when it may require it. _ Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for bnilding 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 Kivers 5 while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Bailway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and 'joins the Invercargill to Dnnedin main line at Gore, and a line through the-Forest HiJl 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 ©t Gsra&is per acre, taken fro*n the statistics of the Colony for the years 1573 to IS7B, a? compared with ~ are as follow :

5 =* 6^ ® m CI « « (N 2 oi cc cc c.h ci r*» CO (C CO CO CO 00 'jhe anbjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin. and Christchurch, the comuiersral centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercar gill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to morerainfall and sudden charges 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 grfiss ajid root crops. The experience of the last few years leads to the conviction that for slLround agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceada 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 there has been very considerably less rainfall ft*" l " in any part of the Colony. jWKRAGB TEMPERATURE. (Southland. Uunedin. Christchurch 186S ...! 1569 ...t 1570.J IS7I -i IS72* | iSJJ —j 45.7 50.9 49.9 50.0 49.6 50.4 50 50.8 50 50.3 51.4 50.3 5-2 52.7 52.6 52 53.fi 52.3 .No obssryations taken in Southland during j873 to ma. WALTER U. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of vV;;ste Lauds 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE OAM AR U 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 IK > THE MAIL.