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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1197, 17 February 1880, Page 3

SALES BY AUCTION. THURSDAY, 11TH MARCH. At 3 o'clock. WALTER PEAK STATION, Wakatipu Lake. FOR SALE BY AUCTION. M ACL E A N AND CO. will submit to auction, at their Rooms, Manse-streat, Dunedin, on the above date, THE WALTER PEAK STATION, Comprising — 24,000 Acres or thereby, of which 10,000 acres are held on pastoral lease, expiring 31st March, ISBI 13,700 acres are held on Gold Gelds tenure 346 acres are held on Agricultural lease. Together with SCOO first-class Merino Sheep, viz, 5000 Wethers, chiefly young 3000 Ewes and Lambs 50 Rams And A few head of Cattle and Horses. The improvements consist of a new stone dwelling-house of five rooms, with verandah, &c., woolshed, drafting yards, men's huts, shearing paddocks, large fruit and vegetable garden, &c. The eheep are in excellent and are a particularly good flock, being chiefly bred from rams imported from Victoria; and the site of the Homestead is one of the most beautiful and easily accessible in the Lake District. Terms : One-third cash ; balance at one and two years. For further particulars apply to DALGETY & CO., Bond-street; Or to MACLEAN & CO., 301 Manse-street, Dunedin. 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 Bnsb, 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 nor.h to 16 mile 3 south of the latitude of th« mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clut'na River at its mouth, Invercargiil being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, tha 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-claes oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raisins turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingofT his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A.l over the district there is firstclnss limestone 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 cox! (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleyß of Aparima, Greti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop lino from the Invercargiil to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargiil to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Fort'sfc Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the teaboaid or market i 3 easy and <-huap from ary part ot it •, and timber, lime, and coal, tan be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield oc cereals per acre, taken fron the statistics of the Co'ony for the year< 1573 to IS7B, a3 compared with Canterbury, are as follow : sc - a o * X ~t?t t-B •+?*?! co a co r— o 3 ci ci co co co vo P3 I £ 2 r~z ; O c eir* cW »"+* C 5 r* co co o rh ® I—l CI d CO CO ci is »-f? r: c « I- c. ift H CO CO CO CO CO CO a .5 a = a rr> u • .2 S 3 «-*•* *** -** »+* £ C 4 <3 O C CM CI CO CO CO cc c& H* - co ci c* CO "CO "■* 5T* !>• N t - * N CO CO (O CO CO The subjoined tables give the average | temperature at Invercargiil, Dunedin, and Chriatchurch, the commeic al centres of the district?. It may be remarked that Invercargiil 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 along the whole saaboard 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 r.tin by no menus exceeds the requirements of the land. 'lbis year the thermometer at Invercargiil has averaged higher than any part of tt>e Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVKBAGE TEMPERATURE. IS6S 1869... 1870... 1871 ...| 1872* i 1877 ... 48.7 5(1.9 49.9 50.0 49.6 50.4 Southland.] Dunedin. Jbri«tchurch 50 S'J.B 50 50.3 51.4 5J.3 52 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52.3 * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. FOR SALE AND TO LET F E. PAIR TELEPHONES; good ordtr; great volume tone j insulated wire 16 feet j price, £ll7s. APl>ly MR. POPE, 344 Station Master, Shag Point Junction. R E. F ° SECTION 22, BLOCK 19, Oamaru Town ; terms very oasy. 300 GEORGE SUMPTER. w ANTED TO SELL Roaper (nearly new) 3 Good.Draught Mores and Harness Harvest Drays . *rp*y