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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3017, 26 May 1884, Page 3

Moody and Ziesler. IWTATIONAI FTRE AND MARINE i^l INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capitai, SrrBSCBiBHD £2,000,000 i Capital Paid to 97,508 Rksebvb 200,918 Steam Threshing Machines, Stack and Farm Insurance. FIRE INSURANCE : Buildings of every description, also Household Furniture and Effects, Goods and Merchandise insured against loss by fire at loweßt current rates. MARINE INSURANCE : Insurances on Hulls of Vessels, Freights or Advances, and Goods and Merchandise of every description, to or from any ports m the World accepted on the most favorable terms. LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID. ALEXANDER CARRICK, Manager, Corner of High and Cashel streets, Christchurch, Cantebbitby Bbanch : Mra E. Gaecoyne „, Agent, Waimate. W. Uprichard ... Agent, Temuka. R. S. Cook ... .., Agent, Geraldine. N.M. & A. Company and W. ZIESLER, 6-31 5540 Agents, Timabt;. Hall and Meason. WAITOHI FARM FOR SALE. TjIAVORED by instructions from Mr JC Peter Friel, we HAVE FOR SALE his Splendid FARM of 100 Acres, Waitohi Flat. We need hardly say this is one of the finest Farms m South Canterbury. It is m first rate heart, good order, well fenced, and subdivided, and offers an excellent investment for anyone desiring to settle m the District. Price low. 5-16 9334 HALL & MEASON. FOR SALE— A TEAM of 10 good working Bullocks, Wagon, Tarpaulins, and Gear complete, Apply to F. POPPLEWILL, Burkes Pass ; or HALL & MEASON, 5-7 9226 'Ximaru. SOUTHLAND LAND HAVING Sold the Southland Land previously advertised WE NOW HAVE SEVERAL OTHER BLOCKS FOR SALE, TOaETEEB ABOUT 5000 ACRES, ON MUCH THE SAME TERMS, AND ADJOINING THAT ALREADY SOLD. In Farms of 150 Acres and Upwards. THE LANS Consists of LOW ROLLING DOWNS, all Ploughable, with Permanent Streams m the Valleys, and is situated from five and a half to ten miles from three or four Railway Stations on the Main Line from Dunedin to Invercargill, so that Produce or Sheep for Freezing can bo sent to either Market. PRICE. £3 10s. TO £6 PER ACRE. TERMS. The WHOLE of the PURCHASE MONEY may remain UNPAID (if required), for Five Years. INTEREST Will be CHARGED at an EXCEEDINGLY LOW RATE, and if required, an arrangement can be made for NO INTEREST TO BE PAID THE FIRST YEAR. LIGNITE, making a First-class FUEL, is found almost everywhere, and as a Good BUSH (Reserved by Government), is within a milo of most of the Land (a License to Cut can be obtained for £1 a year) , FENCING MATERIAL IS VERY^ CHEAP, ns also is BUILDING TIMBER, We have Sold and been instrumental m Selling during the last year, over 12,000 Acres, 3000 of which have been Purchased by bona Jide Fanners from this District, who are settled on the Land, and to whom intending Purchasers can apply for information. Among the settlers on the Land ate the following well-known farmers from this district : — Mr Jabez Allot, of Kingsdown and afterwards Temnka. Mr Thos. Duffell, of Temuka. Mr Wm. Clarke, of Cannington. Mr W. Moorhead, of Bell and Moorheid Otaio ; Besides a number of others. Within a short distance are Mr John Irvine, of Temuka,and Mr James Mcll wraith, 1 of Homo Bush. In this district Mr W. L Westerby, farmer, Landsborough'sroad ; and Messrs O'Connor nnd Prindivillo, Seadown, can give every information, from having been on tho land. The following List, compiled from Govorn- , ment Statistics, shows the comparative yield , of Grain during the last four years m Canteri bury and m tho County of Southland. The t latter only comprises a portion of the oM . Provincial* District of Southland, and does not l include the Jacob's River District, the aver- ' ages for which during tho same period aro — WHEAT. OATS. BARLEY. 29.8 35.5 33.0 por ncre. P LOCALITY. WIIKAT. OATS. BKLT. i 1830 Southland County fi,337 25.0 M.254 32.3" 25.7 Canterbury .. 193,78) 23.0 153,7-13 37.7 30.3 Southland County 11,790 M.7 "2,011 3<\7 3i. - Canterbury ..208,561 2a6 89,280 20.9 £5. ISS2. Southland County 17,006 25.1 32,518 .15.0 2H.f Canterbury "..237,015 21.3 112,370; 2KB 19.1 1883. Southland County 23,958 24.7 47,700, 37.1 33.! 0 Canterbury '. . 24!>,163| 25.5 i1:1r,.457! 2O.ff V,.'. It will bo observed that the area undei l " wheat has increased from 5337 acres m 1880 j to 23,958 m 1883, a clear proof that whoa will grow well ; for farmers woidd not soy * it year after year unless it paid them. 0 Wo ask Farmers and others, ejpe.iiall; Small Farmers and Contractors with Farm ing Plant, to consider tho following facts : — That a very few years ago land m th ? Timaru District was worth only £2 an aero while now it would avorago nearer £10. That what hn» made it ineroaso m value i sottlcmont. 1 That on tho email holdings they have hoy ,g all thoy can make is a bare living, and tlm 10 m ten years' tiino they will be so many yeai older, but no better off than they aro now. ™ That thov should consider whether, mth interests of' their families and thoir old ngi they would not bo wiso to coll their ema i high-priced farms horo, which cannot ii creaso much more m value, and purckni larger ones m Southland, off which they n< _ only can mako a bettor living, but whic must increase m valuo as settlement pri großßOs, and loavo them rich nnd independci by that means alono, and * THE TERMS On which wo aro offering tho Land Puts it within the reach of everj ost one . ». HALL & MEASON, TIMARU.