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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 November 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE JQAND FOB SETTLEMENT. Anvtx OP AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. Under Deferred Payments 80,015 acre* For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coreted 'with Bash, 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 ■oath of the latitude of the month of the Taieri River, and 13 all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the Clutba River at its month, 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 influences is capable of growing not merely excellent wheat, but first-cla*s 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 Atl over the district there is firstlimestone 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 district is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Apanma, Oreti, and yfftf TV;y Rivers ; while a loop line from the to' Kiitfgslon "Railway at Lumadeib furis > through, the -Waimea Plains aad joins the Invercargill to Dunedin main line at ( Sore, and a line through the Forest Hiil DiraicCwOl be constructed shortly. Thus of produce to the seaboard or market is easy and cheap from any part of it ; sod timber, lime, and coal, can be distn- ■ bated all over the country at a minimum coat.- • ' The average yield of cereals per acre, . taken from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1573 to 187S, an compared with Canterbury, are as follow : ec 25 co 55" QO 00 GO CO 00 00 The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercargill, Dunedin, and Chrutchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may bo remarked that InvereargOlbeingsituatedclose to Foveaux Straits Is exposed to moTe rainfali and sudden charges the interior of the district, only seven wil»« due 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 npply of rain by no means exceeds the reinurements of the land. This year the ttiermometer 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 les3 rainfall tr^ an in any part of the ColoDy. AVERAGE TEKPERATFRE. # No observations taken in Southland daring 1373 to 1876. WALTER H. PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of "Waste Lands 331 Board, Southland. Farms upon deferred PAYMENTS, IN CANTERBURY, OTAGO, AND SOUTHLAND, To suit all classes of purchasers. Plans and all information can be had by applying to the NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, S9 Bond-street, Dunedin. SPORTING CONSULTATION No. ox DUNEDIN CUP, 18S1. STAR PROBLEM. 2000 MEMBERS AT £l. First £SOO Second 400 Third 200 Starters 250 Non-starters 350 £2OOO 39 Nominations. Address —"Star Problem," Care of C. J. HARRIS, Star and Garter Hotel, Or, Box 10, P. 0., Oamaru. No. 2 Consultation will be opened immediately after No. 1 closes. £5 0 . -V. 1 2 E--1. A Special Prize of £SO will be awarded to any correspondent who First places the first three horses in .their relative positions in the Cup. % Letters received each day will be kept distinct, aad opened after the race, in order of priority as received, until winner is found. 3. If the horses be correctly placed by more than one person on the satne day, such persons to divide prize. Each letter must have a 2d stamp enclosed, or not eligible for competition. Letters received from November 22nd, ISBO, to February 23rd, ISSI. inclusive. 4. A Committee of five to superintend, their decision to be final. Address—" D. C. Prize," Care of C. J. HARRIS, Star and Garter Hotel, 891 Or, Box 10, P. 0., Oamaru. THE COMBINATION. o &MARU HANDICAP & HURDLE RACE. Run on the 9th and 10th Dec., ISSO. 3uo AT £l. Oamaru Handicap— First Horse £IOO Seeond „ £4O jaifandicap—- ! First Horse £6O Second ~ £2O Third „ £lO Other Starters divided £2O Nan-starters ~ ... £3O £3CO C. P. ROBERTS. Treasurer. Boot 9, Post Office, ' - Or, Royal Hotel, Oamaru. SO3 WYT ANTED Known that the MAIL >as VVv a Larger Circulation than aay other pepec iaOtago published oat of Dunedin.