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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1207, 28 February 1880, Page 3

SALES BY AUCTION HORSE REPOSITORY, THAMES-ST. Regular weekly sales OF HORSES, CATTLE, BUGGIES, AND HARNESS, Held at my Horse Repository, Thamesstreet, opposite Telegraph Office. G. GREENFIELD, 436 Auctioneer. SATURDAY, 6th MARCH. At his Rooms, Harbor-street. At 12 o'clock, AH. .M AU D E • has received instructions to sell by public auction, at above time and place — 00 Bags Poverty Bay Rye Gras3 Seed, in' lots to suit purchasers. Also, 6C Bag 3 Wheat, Oats, and Barley, for Fowls' Food. A. H. MAUDE,. 459" Auctioneer. POSTPONEMENT. MONDAY, Ist MAIiCH. On tlie piemises. At 12 o'clock. AH. MAU D E • has received instructions from Mr. W. Newton, to sell by public auction, on the premises, Wharf-street—The Freehold of part of Sections 4 and 5, Block 3S, Oamara Town, with substantial six-roomed House, aud Garden well stocked with Fruit Trees. Also, at Bame time and place, All his Household Furniture, consisting of— Piano, Tables, Sofas, Cha'rs, Bedsteads, Picturos, Carptt r , &c. The house is well built, and commands a fine view of the Bay, aud is within three minutes' walk of the Post Office and Railway Station. Altogether this is one of the most desirable residential sites in the town. Intending purchasers can inspect house and grounds. A. H. MAUDE, 429 Auctioneer. AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 50,015 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 2os 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 3S miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, tho average height above the Eea 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 mewly 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 perfect heart by a rotatiou of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p 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 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 liue from the Invercargill'to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem run 3 through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be 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 year* 1873 to 187S, a3 compared with Canterbury, are 33 follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commensal centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and suddenchaDges than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate in both drier and warmer, tut 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 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 part 3 of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. MONEY TO LEND —In sums to suit Borrowers 1 , at lowest rates of interest—rate depending upon nature irf •24 _ GEORGE SUMPTER. MONEY TO LEND in sums of £IOO and upwards, at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. Land Office and Waste Land Board Business attended to. GILLIES, STREET, & HISLOP, 314 Bond-street, Dunedin.