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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 26 November 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE 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 is 2os «nri 30s as acre. The land i# from 20 miles north to IK mi e Booth of the latitude of thi month ■ : •.!•* Taieri River, and is all from 2to ."3 :. les tthe northward of the Clutha River at itmoutb, Invercargill of the latitude of the C utha, th>-. j-vemjje 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-class oats and barley, and is j>eculiarly adapted for filing 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 be p him pendent of a bad market for any particular cereal. AH over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the when it may require it. Forests or large extent are scattered overit, 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 Aparima, Oreti, and Mataura Rivers; while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem runs through the Wsimea Plains and joins the Jnveicirgill to Danedin 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 cereai3 per acre, takes from the statistics of the Colony for the years 1873 to 1878, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow : AREA OF AGRICULTURAL LAND nPETN FOR SALE IN

eS o « C s fl tf g d ■S « CJ W to 3; ® ei ci cc « cc « The subjoined tables give the average temperature at Invercnrgtll, Dtmedin. and Chnstchurch, the commercial centres of the districts. It may be remarked that lavercargill being situated close to Foveaux Straits is exposed to moretainfall and sadden char ges the interior of ths district, only seven doe north, where the climate is both drier and -warmer, tut aloDg the -whole seaboard the land is extremely fertile, and much prized £qy grass and root crops* The ejpeneac« of the last few yeara leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the ■apply of rain by no means exceeds the reqmrementa of the land. This year the ttidrmometer at Invercargil] has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, most parts of the N ortn Island, -while there has been very considerably les3 rainfail 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. Farms upon deferred PAYMENTS, IN CANTERBURY, OTAGO, AND SOUTHLAND, To unit all classes of 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. HUBERTS VINEYARD CO. (uairrED,) MELBOURNE. B WILSON AND DUNEDIN, -Sole Agents for New Zsaland. CO. o AMARU MAI L. PRICE ONE PENNY. FORWARDZD Evbrt EVXSETQ BT TRAIN*. Orders for the the fol Mail will be received by Lowing Ag« nta : Orders for copies to he forwarded direct from the office should be addressed to THE PUBLISHER, Mail Office, Tyne-street, Oamam.