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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1249, 19 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments £0,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35/(00 acres Land coveied with Bn3h, 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 month, Invercargill being 3'miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, thu average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average qaa>ity of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent "wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raiding turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the fanner to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his landbyfeedingoffhis green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. _ of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for buiWing 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 Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lcm3dem runs through the Waimea Plainß 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 ai>y part ot it ; and timber, lime, and coal, con be distributed all over the country at a minimum coat. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken froTi the statistics of the Colony for CO 13 tS t—r-- f* rCO CO CO 00 CO 00 The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargdl, Dnnedin, and Christchurch, the commeroial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, whore the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along the -whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crop?. The experience of the last few yeara leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the laud* This year the thermometer at Invercargill has average;! higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the Nrrth Inland, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TOTPKRATITRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1573 to I£7G. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTJO£S ODGE AND JONES SADDLE & HARNESS MAKERS, Importers and Manufacturers of Saddles, Side Saddles, Whips, Spur 3, 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 J. 8. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of rJI kinda Wines and Spirita FlourOatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &.C., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, G UItPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. S. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposito tha Court-iioztae, THAMES-ST EET, O.VSIATUT. 37 rpHE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED J XTENSiVELY IK THE Conn tii s of Woitaki, Waimate, &, Waikonaiti Ag- nts in all the Township? The Mail has a larger cir. ulation than any paper in Otago published outside of Dnnedin. "JVTEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. JJi 2. New DanceMusw. B, W. Hayes, Moncseller, Itchen-strcet.l