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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1202, 23 February 1880, Page 3

—xxts —wn-iiwi !■ •'' •1 • 1 SALES BY AUCTION. THURSDAY, 11TH. MARCH. At 3 o'clock. WALTER PEAK STATION, Wakatipu Lake, FOR SALE BY AUCTION. Maclean an d co. ■. will Bubmifc to auction, ■at their Rooms, Manse-street, 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, 1881 13,700 acres are held on Goldfields tenure 346 acre 3 are held on Agricultural lease. Together with 8000 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, largo fruit and vegetable garden, &c. The slieep are in excellent order, 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. ART3A 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 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles nor;h to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 3S miles to the northward of the Clutba River at its mouth, Invercargill 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 is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-claps 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 rotatiou of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kep him independent of a bad market for auy particular cereal. Ad over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may icquire it. _ Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for buililing 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 Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimca Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hiil District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part ot itj and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken fron the statistics of the Colony foi the years 1873 to 1878, a3 compared with CO '/J CO W CO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chriatchurch, the commeic'al centres of tin. districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatcd close to Foveaux fetraitE is exposed to more rainfall and sudden charges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, but along the whole seaboard the laud is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root cropa. 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 tbe Middle Island, and most parts of the Ncrth Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. 1563... 1869... 1570... 1871... IS72* 1877 ..._ _____ * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. CROWN LICENSES OF RUNS FOR TEN YEARS. BY AUCTION, at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin, on FRIDAY, 27th FEBRUARY, ISBO, at noon Southland. Dunedin. Ghristchurch 52 50 48.7 50.9 49.9 s<>.o 49.6 50.4 52.7 50.8 52.6 50 50.3 53.6 51.4 52.3 50.3 Situation of Run. Approximate Acreage Upset Rontal. 23a 23b 230 23d 08 09 IGOa 160b 160 c 433 43C Kurow District jiaercwhenua District .. Upper Waitiki District.. Eyre Pcalc District .. Hawkdun, Manuherikia. 11,600 12,000 10,020 8,770 7,500 1,500 12,000 •22,000 30,200 37,000 7,700 K. P. 0 0 £ 100 200 170 0 140 110 750 825 01510 0! 90 o; 45 s. d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note —Run No. 99 will be licensed to Ist . Commissioner of Crown Lands.Crown Land Office, . Dunedin, 27th January t 1860 i 341