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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1234, 1 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOE SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. _j Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land corei ed 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 north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clatha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average height alove the sea level being 250 feet. The average qna'ity of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian.Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of grnwingnot merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips andartificialgrasses, thereby enabling the farmer to k«ep his land in perfect- heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land byfeedingoff his green crop 3 with sheep and cattle, and ke:p him independent oif a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. _ of largo extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown cauls) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriofc ia further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of A pari ma, Oreti, and Mataura RiveTS ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill Distriot will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to tjie seaboard or mar ket is easy and cheap from any part of it: and timber, lime, and coal, con be distri buted 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 j 1573 to IS7B, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christckurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatsd close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden chacges 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 i 3 extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crop 3. 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 liaß averaged hicher than any part of tne Middle Island, and most parts of the Nfrth Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. avseage temperature, Dunedin. Christ church 52 52.7 52.6 52 53.6 52.3 No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste 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 Hcrec Appointments. Jf.B. —Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 559 A J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of fell kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware l Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICK GUNS, G UI7POWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. 3. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Anna Act), Opposite tko Court-fcouse, THAME S- S T EE T, OAiIAKU. 37 rpHE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENftY. CIRCULATED J-XTENS:V£LY Itf THE C'cunli. s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Ag. Nts in all the Township?. The Msil has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published oatiiie of Dunedin. -\TEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. J3I 2. New Dance Music. B. \V. Hayes, Muaicseiler, Itchen-atreefc.;