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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 2 October 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOB SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGKICURAL LAND Or"K FfiU SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UV der Deferred Payments 80,015 acres Vor Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, wh'cb. when cleired, in of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 2os and 30s 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 north-ward of the Clutha River at its mouth, 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 ifl equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of grooving not merely excellent wheat, but. first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turcica and ertificicl grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to k-. cp hi 3 land in perfect- heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his Itid byfeedingoffbis green crops with sheen and cat-t'", and ke-p himindepondent of a '>- *1 market for .my particular cereal, A'l over the district there is firstcluss limestona cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. _ of larze extent are scattered «iver_it # providing timbers for building and fencing, »nd cpal (lignite and the beat brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Ap*rin>3. Oreti, and MaUara Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through ths Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Donedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will bo constructed shortly. Thuß carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cjjeap from any part of it ; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the conntry at ft jjjinimum coat. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : K -f O O SC r» t** r-» QO CO CO CO CO 00 • The subjoined tables give the average temperature' at Invercargill, Dunedin. and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the .districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of tha district, only seven miles due north, where the climate id 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-ronnd 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 Inland, and most parts of the Nnrth Island, while there has been very considerably lcs3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVKKAGE TratPERATUKF.. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 J3oard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

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