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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 October 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE L AND FOR SETTLEMENT. "AHF.A OF AGKICUI.TTTRAL LAND OPEN FOK SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveied with Bnsh, which, when cleared, is of superior quality for Agriculture ... 300.000 acres Th«! Pr» ?e r>f defcm-d payment land is 253 and 30* an acre. The land is from -0 miles north to 16 miles south of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clntha River at its month, Invercargill beinar 3 miles dne south of the latitude of the Clntha, the average height above the sea level being 250 feet. The average quality of the soil is eqnal to any in the Australasian Colonies, and 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 enabling the farmer to fetep his land in perfect heart by a rotation of cropping; manure his land by feedingoff his green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke p him independent of a bad market for any particular ■cereal. Ail over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may require it. of large extent arc scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and the best brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The district is fur- ' ther intersected by railways, which open np ihe great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers: while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway dem rons through the Waimea Plains and joins the InvercargUl 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 the country at a minimum cost. The average yield of cereals per acre, takes from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 187S, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : The subjoined tables give the average temperature at InvercargUl, Dunedin, and Chrxstchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that Invercargill beingsituated close to Foveaux Straits ia exposed to more rainfall and snddenchanges 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 i 3 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 ■apply of r*in by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at Invercargill has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, and most parts of the there has been very considerably less rainfall *han in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. Southland. Uunedin. [Christcliareh 1865... 45.7 50 52 50.S 52.7 50 52.6 50.3 52 51.4 ! 53. B 1569...1 50.0 1870...! 49.9 1871 -J s<>.o IS72* i 40.6 1577... ; 50-4 _ 50.3 i 52.3 * No observations taken in Southland during 1873 to 1576. WALTER IT. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. Farms upon deferee: PAYMENTS, IN CANTERBURY, OTAGO, AND SOUTHLAND, To suit all classes cf purchasers. Plana and all information can be had by applying to the NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, 99 Bond-street, Dunedin. NOTICES THE ST. HUBERT'S YENETAKD CO. (LIMITED,) MELBOUKNE. R WILSON AND CO., DUNEDIN, Sole Agents for New Zealand. PURE WINE 3. nTHOMAS REYNOLDS, I Wine Merchant ajtd Ijepostee, Stafford-street, Dunedin, Imports bis Wines direct from Spain and Portugal, where they are selected by Mr. Wm-Keynolds, to insure purity and quality. These Wines are procurable wholesale from the Importer, ana wholesale and retail fxotn Messrs. Bailie and Humphrey, Agents, Oamanu Report of Analysis by Professor Black, Colonial Analyst. University Laboratory, Dunedin, 21st October, 1878. Tixmas Reynolds, Esq. R»r—T have the honor to report on five of Port Wine forwarded by yoa for analysis. These samples may all be described as foil-flavored, fruity, aromatic Wines; possiminh" in a considerable degree that agrec.able fragrance that characterises genuine Port. They do" not contain impurities of any land. The perfect frcecess of these Wines from •very kind of impurity, tho proportion of •agar and alcohol which th«.y contain being quite characteristic of unadulterated, unWine, together with their rich fragr&oce arising from aromatic ethers, ■faoold strongly rc-cfirnm«.-nd th<;m, and gain iar them a good place in tiie Colonial market. (Signed) JAMES O. BLACK, 417 Colonial Analyst. OUN'a I 8 OP J CHRONOMETER jlsit WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, Exactly onwmte the National Book, P Jttl NC KS-S T R E ET, DUNEDIN. ■wqr description of Jewellery made t order. VJB.—J. H. being a thorough Practical; Wltduouktf, all work entrusted to his care V itMtrs Ida utmost attention. 26