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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 436, 23 August 1877, Page 2

Seyeeai eases of scarlet feYer hare occurred at Port Chalmers, Tuapeka, and Tapanui. The Eev. J. Cameron, of Lawrence, has received a call to the new Presbyterian charge ofWaiaieka. The total number of applications for shares in the Union Insurance Company throughout tie Colony is estimated at 800,000. At the football match between Oamaru and Timaru on the 18th inst., Mr. A. .Hardy, one of the Oamaru team, had his collar-bone broken. One of the Waitaki County Councillois was brought up before the Resident Magistrate at Oamaru, charged with using his railway pass on a day when the Council was not sitting. The case wa9 dismissed. A meeting of G-oldfields* members was held lately for the purpos? of taking steps to have certain doubtful points as to Q-oldfields revenue payable to Counties under the Financial Arrangements Act cleared up. A deputation was appointed to wait on the Premier. Ox Saturday last we published in an extra the new clauses in the second amendment to the Government Waterworks Eegulations. The amendm 'nts are in the right direction. The regulations as they now stand will be found in our advertising columns. The second annual ploughing match in the Mount Ida distriet (firßt under the auspices o: the Mount Ida Farmers' Club) took place on Thursday last (23rd) on land belonging to Mr. Walter Inder, situated about one mile from Naseby. The weather was very dull and threatening, a thick mist prevailing all day. The ground chosen for the match °was of fin undulating character, but so far as choi-ie of lots were concerned there was little difference. Shortly after ten a.m., thirteen ploughs (out of sixteen entered) commenced the contest. Prom 150 to 200 people were on the ground, many evidently having travelled a considerable distance, as the neighboring townships were all pretty well represented. Had the weather been favorable, the number present would have been doubled. Mr. Thos. Pinder catered to the inner wants of the people on the ground. Our issue of Saturday wdl contain a full notice of the match, the winners, and dinner proceedings.