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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 July 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 T jinil covei ed 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 land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutha River at ate mouth, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, aad. from climatic influences is capable of growing Hot merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his bind in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding off his green .crops with sheep and cattle, and kfl=p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may xequirs it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and-coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Opeti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line fr#>m tjje Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem run 3 through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at Gore, and a line through the Forest ,Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cjj.eap from any part ot it^; and timber, lime, aoA coal, can be distributed all over the country ftt a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acpe, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the yeara 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : ace! 3 n «a s a o d ° -5 cs-n w4e* »■+■? •+? t-p? to O CC t— o w w w rt « « J .2 ej*. Nm O O W JS W W O ° o m S 5 it c s p rr\ •""* 'W 'W e> wo w wW« w « w cq 03-? CW Ctrf* rrk? F-H CO O O 00 CI WWN W W W US ty OD t* t> b- t> CO 00 00 GO 00 CO The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill,-Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatedclose toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the districts only seven miles due 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 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 Cclopy, AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, 334 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands Eoard, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES THE OAMARU MAIL, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of the Counties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Wai kouaiti, 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 the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL. I