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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 27 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. ARRA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Ui.'derDeferred Payments 80,015 acres Por Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, ■when cleared, i 3 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 <~f 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 mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, 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 [jerfcct heart by rotation 01 cropping 9 manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheen end cattle, and ke p him independent of a i>ad market for any particular cereaL A'l over the district there is firstcl.isa limestone cropping nut 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 district 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 Lutnsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin 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 fron the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : jne suiTjomeu temperature at Invercargill, 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 rainf all 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 mnch prized for grass and root crop 3. 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 lsn>d. 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 less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. Southland.] Daaedin. Christchurch 1568...1 1569-t 1570„.j 1871 ...i IS72* 1577 ... 45.7 50.9 49.9 50.0 40.6 50.4 50 50.8 50 50.3 51.4 5U.3 * 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52.3 ' No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876'. WALTER H. PEABSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Beard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE QAM 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 TVaikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. Fanners wishing to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear t is fact in mind. STTT.T.Tras OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIE3 Should take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MATT*.