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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1237, 5 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UnderDeferrcd Payments 50,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land covei etl 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 sooth of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 33.miles to the northward of the Clntha River at its month, Invercargill beiDg 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, 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, bnt first-claps oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising tixrnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation 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. All over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping ont to fertilise the land when it may require it. Fore3te_ of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for bnilding and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open np the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataara Rivers s while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway atLnmsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Doncdin 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 bo distributed* all over the country at a minimum cost. ■ The average yield of cereals per acre, taken frotx the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to IS7S, a* compared with Canterbnry, are as follow : CO in tr~ oc f"*» - I s " CO uo CO CO CO CO

The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christciurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatedoloEe to Foveaux Straits i 3 exposed 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 aloDg the whole seaboard the Lied 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.roond agriculture the supply of rain by no mean 3 exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged hieher than any part of the 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 TEILPERATTTRE.

* No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to IS7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands • 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES JJ 0D G E 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. 859 A J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Halo (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cat and Pressed Glassware Eartnenvrare J Ironmongery &Ct, &c* Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUITPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oamakxt. 37 rj\HE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY.

CIRCULATED i-XTEXSiYELY IS TILE Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, Sc. "Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townßhip?, The Mail Las a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published outside of Dunedin. "VfEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JL\ 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Musicseller, Itchon-strcet.)