Southland.

In this, the southern land district, there are about 100,350 acres open for selection at the present time, the most of it for cash, but still there are a number of sections open under the three systems mentioned above, at prices varying from 10s. to £2 an acre. The character of the soil varies a good deal, from alluvial flats to hill-slopes, which are sometimes open and covered with natural grass, at others under forest.