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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 3 November 1880, Page 4

L AH FOR SALE k. > - K T LKM KN T U ''A' I.AND - LE IN TH AND. TT .WD'errrd Va> rnents P0,015 *crea Fof :rr t I'inchi-e ... 35,000 acres Li- 'i ietl wh cii, v.'iie:: ol»>:ired. i« o' auti iior ifoality f,r Agriculture ... Th« pri ;e »f deferred layment land is _oa and 301 an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles •oath of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clntha River at its month. Invercargill beincj 3 miles dne south of the latitnde of the Clntha, the average height above the sea level being 200 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-claes oat 3 and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for railing turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the fanner to keep hi* land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land byfeediug off his gret n crops with sheep and cattle, and kesp him independent of a had market for any particular A'l over the district there w bratlimestone cropping out to 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 coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and liatanra Rivers: while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin mam line it Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or inariet is easy and cheap from any part of it; and timber, lime, and coal, can be diatnbnted all over the country at a minimum eoafc. Tha average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 187S, ai compared with Canterbury, are as follow

O e* * BWS'S 5& s c S* ° * W cr Tha subjoined taoies give wc temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that InvercargillbeingaitTtatedclose to Foveaux Straits ia exposed to more rainfall and sndden changes jh.r, the interior of the district, only seven dne north, where the climate 13 both drier and warmer, tnfc along the whole sea* board the land is extremely fertile, and much prised 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, moat parts of the North Island, while •there has been very considerably 1e33 rainfall tinn in any part of the Colony. average temperature. * Ifo observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. Farms upon deferred PAYMENTS, IN CANTERBURY, OTAGO, AND SOUTHLAND, To suit all classes of purchasers. Plans and all information can be had by applying to the NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, 99 Bond-street, Dnnedin.

NOTICES THE ST. HUBERT'S VINEYARD CO., (limited,) MELBOURNE. R "WILSON AND CO., DUNEDIN, Sole Agents for New Zealand. PURE WINES. Thomas Reynolds, Wise Mukchast and Importer, Stafford-street, Dunedin, Imports his Wines direct from Spain and. Portugal, 'where they are selected by Mr. Wb. Reynolds, to insure parity and quality. These Wines are procurable wholesale from the Importer, and wholesale and retail from Messrs. Bailie and Humphrey, Agents, Oaznara. Beport of Analysis by Professor Black, Colonial Analyst. University Laboratory, Dunedin, 21st October, 1878. Thomas Reynolds, Esq. Set—l have the honor to report on five of Port Wine forwarded by yon for analysis. These samples may all be described as •foil-flavored, fruity, aromatic Wines; poseessing in a considerable degree that agreeable fragrance that characterises genuine JPort. They' do not contain impurities of any kind. The perfect freeness of these Wines from •very kind of impurity, the-proportion of sugar alcohol which they contain being 4joxte characteristic of unadulterated, unmanipnlated together with their rich fragrance arising from aromatic ethers, ahoold strongly recommend them, and gain for them a good place in the Colonial market. (Signed) JAMES 6. BLACK, 417 Colonial Analyst OHN HIS OP J CHRONOMETER AKD WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, Exactly opposite the National Bank, PjaiNCES-STBEET, DUNEDIN. Bvwy description of Jewellery made t order. 5,8r-J. H. being a thorough Practical Watchmaker, an work entrusted to his care jr tecewe Ma ntanoet attention, j 26