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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 29 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE JOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Unci erDeferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land '■ oveied with Bash, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The prise of deferred payment land is 25s and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 mile 3 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, Ini/ercargi'l of the latitude of the Ciutha, the average height above the sea level be:ng 250 feet. The average qua'iiy of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not m«r«>lv excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to k>*ep his land in perfect- heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding off hi? green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p liimindependent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstcluss iimestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. of larpe extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building aud 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 Rivers ; while a lood 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 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 gE cereals per acre, taken froii the statistics of the Colony for the years 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : i— r— r— t- r—--00 CO cp 00 CO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsitnated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to jnore rainfall and sudden char ges than the interior of t]ie district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the wJiQle 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 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 Itland, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in ai:y part of the Colocy. AVEBAfiF. TfcJIPERATURE. 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 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, Waimste, and Waikonaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago, Fanners wishing to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear t is fact in mind. SELLERS OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIE3 Should take the fullest sdvoufcsge of the publicity which its columns aiford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MATT-