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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1225, 20 March 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE . , r 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 -oa 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 38 miles to 3K.Srd of th« Ctatha, Hirer at i* mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, the averse height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the .soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and fram climatic influences is capable of growing not merely 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 rotation, of cropping; manure his land by feeding off his greea crops, with sheep and cattle, and ke-p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping oat to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, proyiding 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 Apanma, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway aiLumsdem runs through the W aimea 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 ot it ; and timber, lime, and coal, can Ira 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 years 1873 to . 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : O 2, tczfg* <s s c/.2 -fcl r±9 HCI CO C 3 CO t— o ©I ©I CO CO CO CD g s rl- 3 99* fS# -H 00 <5 C W CI CO W CJ •SON?? Rtf ■*t* « n* co a rCi w « w w w e X. S 5 ?? « e. a-t x -t -«i •+# O O •* C 3 © (N ci ci fj m n eo -S £ S 3 U- 3 i-W •+? r . _ O CO CI W CI w w w •s: co co go U3 C 5 N CD fe E? go CO CO The* subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Cbriatciiurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close toFoveauz Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than tha interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate is 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 rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. Thi3 year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hiaher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the Nr rth Island, while there has been very considerably les3 rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMrEBATCT.E. 1565...j 1569... 1570 ...l 1571 IS72* 1577.J * No observations taken in Sonthland durinj 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland, BUSINESS NOTIOES ODGE AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spurs, Buggy and Carriage Harness, Cart Harness, and Collars of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. X.B. —Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. So!) A J. S. HEADL AN D, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, • Has oa Sale (both Wholosale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cnt and Pressed Glassware Earth en warr Ironmongery &c., to. Parties abont to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, tii LOWEST PRICK GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, A. j. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposito the Co "irt-fcouse, THAMES.ST E E T, OAMARU. 37 HE OAM AR U .MAI L. PRICE —ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED I.XTENSiVELY rs THE Countii s of W aitaki, Waiaiate, & W aikonaiti Agents ia all the Township?. rhe Mail ha 3 a larger cir.ulation than any paper in Oiato published outsi le of Dunedin. EW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B.W.Hayes, icaeljler, Itdum-street.