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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1200, 20 February 1880, Page 3

SALES BY AUCTION. THURSDAY, 11TH MARCH. At 3 o'clock. WALTER PEAK STATION, Wakatipu Lake. FOR SALE BY AUCTION. Maclean and co. will submit to auction, at their Rooms, Manse-street, Dunedin, on the above date, THE WALTER PEAK STATION, Comprising—--24,000 Acrea or thereby, of which 10,000 acrea are held on pastoral lease, expiring 31st March, 1881 13,700 acres are held on Goldfields tenure 346 acres are held on Agricultural lease. Together with 8000 first-class Merino Sheep, viz. : 5000 Wethers, chiefly young 3000 Ewes and Lamb 3 50 Rams And A few head of Cattle and Horses. and The improvements consist of a new stone dwelling-house" of five rooms, with verandah, &c., woolshed, drafting yards, men' huts, shearing paddocks, large fruit vegetable garden, &e. The sheep arc in excellent; order, and am a particularly good llock, being chiefly bred from ram 3 imported from Victoria; and the site of the Homestead is oae of the most beautiful and easily acceisible 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 Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres The price°of deferred payment land is '2sa and 30s an acre. The hnd is from 20 mile 3 n< rih to 16 mile 3 south of the latitude of the- mouth of the Taieri Kiver, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at it 3 mouth, InvorcargiJl being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the C utha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil i 3 equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but Srst-cla?s oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasaoa, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.-p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A 1 over the district there is firstclass 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 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, (Jreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway dem runs through the Waimea Plains and joi&s the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through t!ie H'.ll District will be constructed shortly, lhus carriage of produce lo the Ecaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of ibj and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken frOTi the statistics ot the Colony for the years 1573 to IS7B, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill. Dunedin. and Christchurch, the cimmere al centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituat'd close to Foveaux Straits ia exposed to more rainfall ami sudden changes < than the interior of the district, only seven mtles due north, when; the climate is both drier »nd warmer, but along 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 niosu* exceeds the requirements of the laud. Ibis year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged binher than any part of Mi<idlo Island, and moat parts of the N> rtn island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in aDy part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPEKATURF. IS6S ...| 1869 ...I 1570.. 1871 .. 1872* * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands . 334 Board, Southland. FOR SALE AND TO LET F R SECTION 14, BLOCK IS, Oamaru Town(fraehold), wilh three-roomed Wooden HOUsE, &c. Price low; terms very easy. 3=5 GEORGE SUMPTER. rjIHE undersigned ha 3 received instructions from Mr. D. Henderson to soil his allotments in RICHMOND TOWNSHIP. Apply to 358 GEORGE SUMPTER. LARGE ROOM TO LET, in Union Offices, Tyne-Btaeet. Nbwtow asd Mikams. (