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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 5 October 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE *ND FOR SETTLEMENT. ARL'A OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. 80,015 acres 35,000 acres Uudei*Deferred Payments Tor Di.'ect Purchase ... Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is .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 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 the Clntha, 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 land by feeding off his green crops with sheen and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A! 1 over the district there is firstcl.lß3 limestone cropping out 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 tho' best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, wbifih open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop 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 t'ne 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 avenge yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1673 to IS7S, a3 compared with Canterbnry, are as follow : ■f o a i r-< rrl —' The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, aud Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts.. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden char ges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due portb, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut ftlopg the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, 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 Noith Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. -iVERAGE TEMPERATURE. IS6S 1569.... li>7o ...t ism ...j IS72* r 1577 ...j uo.fl 49.3 50.0 40.fi 5U.4 * No observations taken in Scutbland during 1573 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 £oard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

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