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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 28 July 1922, Page 3

O' make a cake! Bake a cake! B«ker'» man!

Deck it with tapers as quick an you can!

Dozens of kiddies are coming to tea, Dear Little Cuddies has just turned three. .-,■-.

Peor little girlie! we thought she'd die, Dread croup is so prevalent in Jaly; Watching her gasping we bad to endure Till she had Wood's Great Peppermint Cure.

Something like a shovel. Messre Ruaton and Horrisby, Ltd., of Lincoln, England, have been instructed by the Crown agents for the colonies, to supply three exceptionally heavy railway type steam shovels to carry out the necessary excavations for the new harbour at Takoradi, Africa. These shovels are larger than aay hitherto constructed in Britain, the net weight of each being approximately 100 tons, bucket capacity 3J cubic ysrds, a full bucket representing 8 tons of rock. The following were the fees fixed for the services of leading Btallions in England this season:—The Tetareh, 500gns; Polymelus, 400gns; Pommern, 400gns; Roi Herode, 400gns; Sunetar, 400gns; Swynford, 400gns; Grand Parade, £400; Bachelors Double, L4OO. Australian stud masters have to be content with very mush smaller fees than those quoted above. Buckwheat's fee last season was 200gns, and that of ; Comedy King lOOgns. If Comedy King were standing in England with a like record to that whichj is down to the credit of the Australian it may be regarded as pretty certain that the amount for his services would b* at l«*st 400gos.