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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1228, 24 March 1880, Page 4

L FOR SALE and for settlement. IRE A OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveicd with Bush, ■which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land 13 203 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 13 all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its moutb, Invercargill beini* 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Ciutha, th« average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average qus'ity of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic intlnenees is capable of growingnot merely excellent wheat, but first-clars 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 green crops with sheen and cattle, and ke_p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH 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 bGst brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is fnrther intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apanma, Oyeti, a ud Mataura KiveTS ; while a loop line from tjie Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lnmsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Donedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Fcyest 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 ail over the country at a minimum coat. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : o X - E£—: T «S s C J* 2 n-j» ■+* H-f H?i zs o co r- © 3* 5 CI CI CO CO CO CO ® » c £ -S >* r> —J I § ,M n cs o -f ss o ej £2 CI CI CO CO CO CO r= co o o co ci 2 ci ci ci co ci co co is « i— «x r- tCO cc CO CO CO CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to b oveaux Straits isexposed 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 seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass jvpd 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 ye#r the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hieber than any part of tee Middle l3land, an<l most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part cf the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, IS6S. 1569. 1570. 1871 . IS72* 1577 * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of TVaste Lands 334 Board, .Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES 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. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sals (both Wholesale and Rotail), Groceries of all Undo Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery <fcc., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in Btock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAME S- S T EE T, C.viAur. 27 rjp HE OAII AR U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED INTENSIVELY LS THE Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, &. Waikouaiti Ag-.nt;; in all the Township'. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published outride cf Dunedin. New zkaland music album, No. 2. New Dance Music, B. W. Hayes, Musicseller, Itchen-street,