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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 27 November 1880, Page 4

FOR SALE FOB SETTLEMENT. ABPi OF AGRICULTURAL LAND OPEN FOR SALE IN SOUTHLAND. -Under-Deferred Parmer.t3 ?0,015 acres For Direct Purchase ... 35,000 acres Land coveted with Bnsh, which, when cleared, is o! superior quality for Agriculture ... 3U0.000 acres The price of deferred payment landus 2oa and 30a an acre. The land is from £0 miles nonh to 16 mile 3 ■oath of the latitude of the mouth of the Taieri River, and is all from 2 to 38 miles to the northward of the. Clutha River at its moutb, InvercargOl being 3 miles due south of the latitude of the Clutha, the average height above the »«a level bang 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 peculiarly adapted for raisins 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 hie green crops with sheep and cattle, and ke.p him independent of a bad market for any particu.ar cereal. AU over the district there is firstclass limestone cropping out to fertilise the land when it may xequtre it. Forests ot large extent are scattered over it, providing timbers for building and fencing, and coal (lignite and. the beat brown coals) for fuel everywhere obtainable. The distriot is further intersected by railways, which open up the great valleys of Aparima, Oreti, and Matadra Rivers: while a loop line from the Invercargill to Kingston Railway at Lumsdem rnna through the Waimea Plains and joins the Invercargill to Duncdin 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 eoat. The average yield of cereals par acre, takes from the statistics of the Colony for the year* 1873 to 187S, as compared with Canterbury, are as follow :

PS L_ S si s « £ «9* •«+ _ -s » c* ec £• o ei ci w cc w c: S3 I .8 2HwS « n W C SS S3 «i C tf O r/5^ c e: h- o u3 >a 2 W C 5 CD C 3 CO CO « >» si o- 2 « <•* CC C 5 t""» 2 c< w w « w w The subjoined tables give the average temperature at InvercargiU, Dnnedin, and Chrutohnrch, the commercial centres of the district*. It may be remarked that InverMtfgfllbeingaitnatedclose to Foveaux Straits is exposed to more rainfall and sudden charges jh.n the interior of the aistriot, only seven miles dne north, where the climate is both drier and warmer, tat aloDg the whole seabeard the land: is extremely fertile, and much prized for grass and root crops. The pxperieace of the last few years leads to the conviction that for all-round agriculture the ■apply of rain by no means exceeds the requirements of the land. This year the thermometer at InvercargiU has averaged higher than any part of the Middle Island, sad moat parts of the North Island, while there has been very considerably less rainfall in any part of the Colony. AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. • No observations taken in Southland durin 1873 to 1576. WALTER H, PEARSON, Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands 334 Board, Southland. Farms upon deferred PAYMENTS, IN CANTERBURY, OTAGO, AND SOUTHLAND, To suit all clauea of purchasers. Plana and all information can be had by applying to the NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, 09 Bond-street, Dune din. NOTICES THE ST. HUBERT'S VINEYARD CO., (LIMITED,) MELB OURNE. WILSON AND CO., DUNEDIN, Sola Agents for New Zealand.

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