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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 14 July 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE;; t /. AND FOR S-ETJTLEMENt. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND •' OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. QuderDeferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bosh, •which, when cleared, , .r is-off superior quality (• J " for Agriculture ... 300,000.acres The-price of .deferred payment la»4 is 25s and 30s an acre". The lapd is from 20 utiles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, &rid is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at its mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of.the latitude of the "Clutha>-the average height above theMsea level being 250 feet: The .average quality of the soil is equal f to abyin theAuatralasia'n Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merelv excellent wheat, but .first-class ,pats and barley, Mid is • peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and.artificial grasses, thereby, 'the farmer* to ke£p ! his -'limd -jferfecfc beaitfr by a rotation of'cropping ; manure his land by feeding off bis green'crops •il. _1 J1 i_i.l _ .—J U A r.n Viim m/io. cfjreaL over the diatriet,:theFeisfiratclass limestonejjropping out to fertilise the land when 5t -may require -itA Forests of (lignite and the bestP bfcdwn 'for fuel everywhere obtainable;- The-dißtriofcis farther interpreted by railways, whiclfflpen up tbe,'great 1 valleys 1 of' Apatima, Orfeti, and Mataura P. ivers; white a loop line froirf the Invercargill to Kingston Railway! at Lui&sdem runs through the Waimea Plains and joins tlje»,lnvercargill to Dftnedin main line; at Gore, and, a line through the^F ojreat Hillj District wiil'be constructed 'shortly. Thusj carriage of produce" to" the seaboard or market is>eaey and cheap frotnany pdrt of it; and timber, lime, - andj cps|l, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. . .... • The average-yield of acre, taken from the (Statistics of ihe Cplony for the year 3 1873 to 1878. as compared witjx : Capte^bury,,are as follow ; :- Tbe subjoined, tables ' give. the Average temperature a.t Invercargill, _ I}unedmj and Clfiistch'urch/the commercial centres of the diitHcts: ' It'may be rejftarked that Intereargillbeing situated close; fcgf Straits ttiaiLthe inferior of the disiirifct* &£y seven miles.doe north, wfeere the 1 jclift&te is ; both drier and warmer, tut along the whole spaboard the land is extremely ; fertife,'ahd.'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 tbe Middle Island, and \no&t 1 parts of ther 'North while there ha%b§en_very considerably Jess rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE - TKMPEBATURE, No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. : ; WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 1334 ■ J "Board/ Sopthland. ' : BUSINESS NOTICES T HE. , ~T . W ; AMARU ( M AIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, , T .1- K 1 ■: ' • - ' • •- •••«• Has now a hUARANtEED* CffiCULATION OF I '' * 1400 COPIES DAILY. ' '' : | Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and .Waikpuaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST Advertising medium in North Qtago. * Farmers wishing ' to dispose of Stock, &c, should bear this fact in mind. SELLERS ;OF 4 STOCK.- AND;' FARM | ... r PROPERTIED . .... ;[ Should take the fullest advantage of the | publicity which 'its coluxnM aCbrd BY ATKVERTTSIN'G THEIR" SAIJSS-IN THE SIAHi 1