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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 9 August 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOR SETTLEMENT. /VR.TiIA OP AGRICTJt TURAL LANi) OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35;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 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 its mouth, Xnvercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the average height ahove 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 capable, of growing not merely excellent wheat, but oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby enabling the farmer to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land byfeeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and keep him independent of a bad market for any particular cereaL All over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. of large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, anil eflfli (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, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Xnvercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs 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 mar' lset is easy and cheap from any part of it_, and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Cplony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared wit}) Canterbury, are as follow : a "5 a <-> rr ™ CH> -«! «-W co o co (ft - - _ 1— O «n« n n O' h«m n n « ® -e • -S s s a O 41 CP ° >» g-5 «# »+# scrl rs -2 a » a (N Cf CO M M « £ O' CP S) 1H ew rHf -HI t-i ec ca o oo fl fi w O CO U! tO l> (O r? oo co co co cO co The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chris tchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargillbeingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden ch angeß than the interior of the district, 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 crpps, The experi ence of the last few years leads to t}je 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 ttie Middle Island, and most parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less raiu fall than in any part of the Colony. average temperature, * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES MAIL, THE QAM A R U PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, Has now a GUARANTEED CIRCULATION OF 1400 COPIES DAILY. Being read throughout the whole of the bounties of Waitaki, Waimate, and Wai:ouaiti, it is unquestionably the BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM in North )tago. Fanners wishing to dispose of Itock, &c, should bear thiß fact in mind. lELLERS OF STOCK AND FARM PROPERTIES hould take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford •>Y ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN 'JI'H K MAIL. 7! C AJ Hi pn 46 In 76