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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 11 October 1880, Page 4

• BUSINESS NOTICES T AND FOR SETTLEMENT. ■ 1 . AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN - SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres' For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bnsh, which, when cleared, is oc 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 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 pe.i-focfe heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green crops Trifch 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 to fertilise the land when it may require, it. Forests of extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and 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 Risers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joina the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gocre, and a line through the Forest Hill District will he 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 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 aldng the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass root crops. The experience of the l(ist 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 Pftrfcs p.f tho. North Island, while therp has been very qonsiderably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATTTHK. * ly o observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 ' Board, Southiaiv^.

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