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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 22 September 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOE SETTLEMENT. AItEA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. UnderDcferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveted with Bush, -which, when cleared, is o? superior quality for Agriculture ... 300,000 acres The price of deferred payment land is 2os and 30s an acre. The land is from 20 miles north to 16 miles Eouth of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clntha River at lte month, 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, and from climatic influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-claw oato and barky, «qd is peculiarly adapted for raising turnipa and artificial grasses, thereby enabling thje farmer to jjepg his land in rjerfect heart by a rotation or manure his landbyfeedjngoff his grgep pjdps 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 fertilise the land when it may lequire it. Forests of large extept are scattered over it, providing timbers for baildjng and fencing, and coaJ (lignite and the best fcjrowp S9&«) f ° r ™ el everywhere obtainable. The district itf isr* ther intersected. by railways, which open up t the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Matanra Rirers; while a loop line from the luvrcargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the W#es Plains and joins the Invercargill to Danedia maip hne at Gore, and a line through the Forest Hill District will be constructed Bhortly. Thus carriage of produce to the seaboardor racket is easy and cheap from any part ot it; and timber, Ikae, af?4 coal, can be distributed all over the country gfc a minimum cost. The average yield ot cereals per acre, taken from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1873 to 1878, a<i_ compared with Canterbury, are as follow S t> r* CO ao co co oo oo H H of M The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dnnedin, and Christchnrch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill being situated close toFoveaux Straits is exposed to mora rainfall and sudden changes than the interior of the district, only geyen miles due north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tnt along the whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much priced for grass and root crops. The experience of th£ lgat few years leads to the conviction that for aIL-roupfl agriculture the supply of rain by no meaß.B efcppda the requirements of the land. This yejjr the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of tfce Middle Island, and moat parts of the North Island, while there has.been very considerably less rainfall fh nn in any part of the Colony. 47BR4CE TEMPERATURE. I&6S 1869,„l 1872* 1877.. * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. BUSINESS NOTICES

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