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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1299, 5 June 1880, Page 4

FOR ; SAUE ; -A N D F OR" SETTL EME W. AT?. TEA OF "AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR."PALE I£? SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase 55,000 acres 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 landis from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth oE the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the - northward of the Cluthai-River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, th« 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-claps oats and barley, .and jus peculiarly adapted, foi raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer' to keep" his land in ■perfect heart by a rotation, of cropping; ; mannre his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, "and kep ipendent.of a bad market for any particulai cereal, Ail over the district there is first' class limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests oi large, extent are • scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coa (lignite gnd the best brown coals) for fue everywhere obtainable Thp'djstriot is fur :ther intersected by railways, whipli open uj the great valleys- of Aparima, Oreti, anc Mataura Eivers ; while a loop line from th< Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lums dem runs through the Waimea Plains anc 'joins'the Invercargill to'Dunedin main lini lat .Gore, and a line, through the Forest Hi). District will bp constructed shortly. Thm • carriage of produce to the seaboard or mar ket is easy and cheap from any part ot it_ and timber; ; lime, and coal, can be distri buted all, over- the country at a minimun Icost. .. . .. The average yield of cereals per acre taken from the statistics: of the Colony fo the years 1873 to 1878, as compared wit] Canterbury, are as follow » © <=s W 5g 3 S o a o,« ° 03 . ** . : .© >1 ■g' g c** KW 1-W O OO €0 O <N <N CO CO CJ tlf 1* fW.rtf y-W *+# ow O CO O: iA Ud CO CO CO CO CO CO _g T*ji co a on C 4 CO CO CS (N O . » PJ s e O- o * rr,' RB RB r+* r+# a o o (N ?Q W W CO oW eW cw r« r-H CO O O 00 CI W « CO w . CO CD Cr; OD' CO CO CO nrt ■ rt KH ""H 'lhe subjoined tables give the averag temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, anc Ohristchurch, the commercial centre's of th : districts. It may be remarked that Inver cargillbeingsituated close toFoveaux Strait: is exposed to more rainfall and sudden change than the interior"of the district, only sevei miles due north," where the plimate is botl : drier and warmer, tut along the whole sea board the land is extremely fertile, ap.d mucl •prized for grass and root crops. The experi : etice of the last few years leads to -the con : viction that for all-round agriculture tin supply of rain by no means exceeds the re quirements of • the land. This year - tin thermometer at Invercargill has average< higher than any part of the Middle Island arid-most parts of the Ncrth Island, fybil there has been very considerably less rain fall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. No observations taken in Southland durinj 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Land 334 Board, Southland, BUSINESS NOTICES THE Q A M,'A R U MAI L, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES DAILY. "Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Waikouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North Otago. "Farmers wishing "to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear, this fact in mind. SELLERS OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES Should take thp. fullest' advantage of the' . publicity which its colnmns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES .IN THE MAIL. : •