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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 16 September 1880, Page 4

for sale AND FOR SETTLEMENT. AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN • SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Oirect 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 f.oatli of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 milea 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 soil is equal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not moroly excellent wheat, hut 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 land by feeding off his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p him independent of a bad market for any particular cereal. A'l over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertiiisa the land when it may require it. Forests of largo extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fenoing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coata) for fnel everywhere obtainable. The distriot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleyß of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumadem run 3 through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main lino at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed shortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboard or market in 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 avcrngo yield of cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1573 to 1878, a-i compared, -with Cantcrbuiy, are aa follow 05 •# o ie t. oc 1— r- 1— r--00 00 go co 00 ao The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituatedcloge toFoveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sodden charges than the interior of the district, only seven miles dne north, where 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 ecceads the requirements of the land. This yejir the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged biaher than any part of the Middle Island, and moat parts of the North lelnnd, while there has been very considerably less 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 Doard, 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 PROPEPvTIES Should take the fullest advantage of the publicity which its columns afTord BY ADVERTISING THEIR SALES IN THE MAIL.