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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1304, 11 June 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments. 80j015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land co vexed with Bosh, • which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 25s and 308 an acre.

The land is from 20 miles north to* 16 miles south of the latitude of the month of the Taieri Biver, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of -the- Glutha River at its month,.lnvercargill beiDg 3 miles.due south of the latitude of-the Clutha, the average height above Lthei 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, bflt. firstrclass oats, and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, " thereby; enabling the fanner to keep his.land ia perfect.heart by a rotation of cropping;: manure his landbyfeedingoff his green crops with, aheep and cattle, and ke -p him independent of a had market for acy 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 ooaJs).for fuel 1 everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Hirers ( while a.loop line from the' Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Waim'ea Plains and; joins the lnvercargill to"D'uhedin main line At Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will constructed Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or inar-, ket is easy and cheap from any part of it; and timber, . lime, and coal,,.can he distributed' all over the couitry at a minimum cost.

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". The subjoined tables ." give the-average temperature at Invercargiil, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Ihvercargillbeingsituated close to Foveau* Straits is exposed to more rainfall and: sadden changes than the interior of the district, only-seven miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tot aloDg the' -whole seaboard the land is'extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The expert ence of the last few years leads to the conviction that' for 'all-round agriculture the supply of rain by no meana exceeds ' the requirements of the-land. This year the thermometer at Invercargiil, has; averaged .higher than, any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been' very considerably less rainfan than in any part of the Colony. , AVJBBAGE 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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