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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 8 October 1880, Page 4

BUij! IN ESS MOTiGES AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres 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 30b 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 mileß to the northward 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 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 byfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereaL Ail over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out ta fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal, (lignite'and the best brown ooals) 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 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 qf 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 th 9 country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow The subjoined tables give the average 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 rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut aloDg 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-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 toe Middle Island, and most parts of tiie North Island, while there has l}een very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVEKAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. THE QAMARU MAIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES D4ILY. Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Waikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. Farmers wishing to dispose of Sto.pk, &c, should bear t is fact in mind. SELLERS OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take tl}e adyantage of the publicity TSfhipb its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR IN THE MAH* PRINTING. rg-TOE PROPRIETOR of the QAMARU mfh Having just imported the Most EFFICIENT STEAM MACHINERY AND APPROVED TYPE, For the purpose of Printing General Work wishes to notify the Merchants, Trades people, &c., that the following may be had AT REASONABLE PRICES At the Mail Office:— BILL-HEADS, CARDS, CIRCULARS, RECEIPT FORMS, HANDBILLS, DANCE PR O GRAMMES, CONCERT PROGRAMMES, &Q., &0,. &C.