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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 September 1880, Page 4

for sale r AND FOR SETTLEMENT. ARE?A OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN KOK SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UuderDeferred Payments 80,01$ acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres land coveied T vith Bush, which, •when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The prbe of deferred payment land is 25s and 36s 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 Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of tha 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 IfQm 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 land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle. and Jte p hini independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclans limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Foreste_ of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown oosJs) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distraofc is farther intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Xlataura Rivers * while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waiaw* Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will ba constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to tjje seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it ; and timber, lime, and- coal, can distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken fnm the statistics of the Colony for the year? 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : jno snojGineu lauieti u.oiojji. temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christcburch, the commercial centres of thtdistricts. It may be remarked that Invercargili beingsitnated close to P Straits isexpGsed to morerainfall and suddencriaoges than the inferior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, hut fclopg the whole ssaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass apd root crops. The experience of the last few yeara 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 ha 3 averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most pgrts of the North Ifland, while there has been very g.ODsiderably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVER-AGE temperature. No oi'garyations taken in Southland during 1873 to 187(3. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "VVascp Lands 334 Beard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

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