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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1283, 18 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE T AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA op agricultural LAND OP F.N If OK SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments £0,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 Land coveied 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 isirom 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 Clntha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Austral asian Colonies, and "from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but 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 Ms landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and kesp him independent of 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. _ 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 Apanma, Oreti, and Mataura Bivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem rnns through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Danedin 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 por acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year 3 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Danedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsitnatedclose toFoveaux Straits i 3 exposed to morerainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tut aloDg 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 North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, 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 Collare of every description, and all other Horse Appointments. N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order any pattern. to 859 A J. S. HEADLAND, GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Winea and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &Cwg &c» Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICE. GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. S. A. J. S. HEADLAND (Licensed under the Arms Act), Opposite the Court-house, THAMES.ST EET, Oaeabtt. 37 rpHE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED EXTENSIVELY IK THE Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships. The Mail has a larger circulation than any <j paper in Otago published out&ide ° of Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Musjo, B. W. Hayes, Muaicseller, lichen-streets V