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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1284, 19 May 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bush, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment laud 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 Itiver, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill beiDg 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 capablp 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 farjuer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. All over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out tp 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) foj? fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apanma, Oreti, and Mataura Fivers ; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the VV aimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line thrpugh the Forest Hill District will lie 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 <jver tlje country at a minimum cost. The average yield ef cereals pep acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, a? compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated 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, but 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 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 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Southland. BUSINESS NOTIQSS 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. to 559 N.B.—Colonial Saddles made to order any pattern. S. HEADLAND, A. * GROCER, IRONMONGER, AND GENERAL MERCHANT, Has on Sale (both Wholesale and Retail), Groceries of all kinds Wines and Spirits Flour Oatmeal China Cut and Pressed Glassware Earthenware Ironmongery &c., &e. Parties about to FURNISH have a Large stock of First-class Goods to choose from, a th LOWEST PRICK GUNS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND AMMUNITION GENERALLY, Always in stock. S. A 0. S. HEADLAND (Lie&nsed under the Arms Act), Opposite tho Court-house, THAMES-ST EET, Oamabtt. 37 HE OAMARU MAIL. PRICE—ONE PENNY. CIRCULATED IXTENSiVELY IN THE Countus of Waitaki, Waimate, & Waikouaiti Agents in all the Townships, Tho Mail has a larger circulation than any paper in Otago published outside of Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND MUSIC ALBUM, No. 2. New Dance Music, Bi W. Haj&S, MmmJler, liKhm-atKetit i