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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1303, 10 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE and for settlement* abba OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase " ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bosh, yhiefa, when cleared, u o! superior: quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price ef deferred payment land is 25s and 80s an acre.

Thfl land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and iB 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, 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 climatie influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, bnt first-cla?8 oats and barley, and ifl. peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the fanner to keep his land m perfect heart by a rotation of cropping j manure his land by feeding off his grpea crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him inder pendent of a bad market for any particular cerea), A'l 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 bjrown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The ijistrict 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 Lumsdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invprcapgill j;o Dtinedin main line at Gore, and a line through thp Fofest_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 ail over the GQlWtry at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

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The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Inveroargul, Dunedin, and Chnstchurch, the commercial 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 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 lftat few years leads to the conviction that for alhround 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 leas rainfall 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 Board, Southland, BUSINESS NOTICES

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