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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1239, 7 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AN D FOR SETTLEMENT* AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments £0,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bash, 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 Clutha River at its moutb, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the average height above the eea level being 250 feet. The average qua'ity of the soil is equal to any in t'ie Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, bnt 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 hu land byfeediugoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke:p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A ! 1 over the district there is firstctasa limestone cropping ont to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent arc scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the beat brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriafc is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataara Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lum3dem runs through the Waimca 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 3 1873 to 1878, ai compared with Canterbury, are as follow : « f 15 (S h <IJ r-» t l * N CO CO CO CO CO 00

7he subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatcdclose to Foveaux Straits i 3 exposed to more rainfall andsndden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, where the climate ia both drier and warmer, tut along the whole seaboard the land is 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 has averaged hicher than any part of the Middle Island, and moat parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVJBRAGE TESIPEBATUT.E. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES ODGE AND JONES SADDLE k 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 Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal

China Cat and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &C«, &c< Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-claaa Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed tinder the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-honsa, THAMES- ST EET, Oamabtt. 37 rjIHE OAM AR U MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED LXTENSiVELY IS THZ Connti; s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikonaiti Ag. Nts in all the Township?. The Mail has a larger cm nlafcion than any paper in Otago published oattide of Dnnedin. EW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music. B. W. Hayes, Muaicseller, Itchen-streetJ