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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1252, 22 April 1880, Page 4

FOR SALfc FOB BETTLEMEIn. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND . OPEN FOR SALE IN" SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bosh, 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 mUe3 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 mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, 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, but first-cla?s 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 byfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kerp him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. Ail 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 best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Matanra Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdcm runs through the Waimea Plainß and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Foreßt 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 1876, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : M 13 O t- l£ I— i~- t— rCO ao 00 CO OO 00 The subjoined tables give the- average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is 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 along the whole seaboard the land 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-round agriculture the supply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the Nr.rth Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony.

AVKBAGE TKiLPEBATtTRK. * 2so observations taken in Southland daring 1873 to 1376. 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 Collara of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order to any pattern. 859 J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kind* Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Ej-rthemrarp Ironmongery &c., &c. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUITPOWDEK, SHOT, AND

AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Alwayß in stock. T J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-honse, THAMES-ST EET, Oamaeu. 37 HE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IN THE Conn tii s of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Township?. The Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published outside of Dnnedin. "J\TEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALHUM. No. i -i-* 2. Xc.r la.i.c; JIIJJ. \V. iIAVKJi, Musicscilcr, Ifcdieu-strcxt.l