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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 11 September 1880, Page 4

for sale " AND FOE SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND 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 i 3 25s and 303 an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles annth 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 month, Invercargill being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the CJutha, the average height above the eea 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, bnt first-class 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 landbyfeedingoff 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. _ 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 distriot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura River*: while a loop line from the Invercargill 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 Fopeat 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 distributed all over the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1573 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurcb, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill bcingsituated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only seven miles due north, whare the climate is both drier and warmer, tut along 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 si Invercargill has averaged hisfher than any pait of the Middle Island, and most parta of the Ncrih Jeland, while there has been very considerably legs rainfall than in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. * 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 t is 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.