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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 10 August 1880, Page 4

for sale FOR SETTLEMENT, AREA OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase 35,000 acres Land coveied "frith 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 r* 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, 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 spil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, «ud from climatic influences is capable of growing not; merely excellent wheat, but first-class oats and barley, and is peculiarly adapted for raising turnips and artificial grasses, thereby ppnTiling the former to keep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feeding.o/f his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p fejm independent of a bod market for any cereal. Ail over the district there js firstclass limestone cropping onfc to fertilise the land when it may require it. Forests of large extent are scattered over it, providipg timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriot 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 at Lumsdem runs through the Waijnea Pl#in? ftnd 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 cheap from any part of it ; and timber, lime, and coal, can be distributed all over tJj® country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals par acrfi, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tableß give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatedclose toFoveaux Straits i 3 exposed to more rainfall &nd sudden changes t.Tinn the interior of the district, pnly seven miles due north, where the climate is fcoth 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. Thjs 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 Colony. AVERAGE TE3IPERATTTRE. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES % THE QAMARU 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 Waikouaiti, 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 Id take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afford BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.