Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 29 August 1891, Page 3

Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

An ordinary Wa ker's whisky bottle has been completely tilled with l)x Fletchers Pills, securely corked with a covk one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the ohavge of the Commercial Bank, tfewtown, ; Sydney. JVb living soul know* how many pill* the bottle contains. We. agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of tills contained in the bottle as fol ows :— Om present of £25 for the nearest guess. • . „ „ £10 for the next nearest guess '. " „£5 for the next nearest guess ,! „£4 for the next nearest guess „ £3 for the next nearest guess „ £2 for the next nearest gues3 " " „£1 for the next nearest guess "Conditions :— We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Pi Is are eligible to com* pete and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box kaving our laboratory after this date. In case two or more persons guess the correct number, the one first to hand will get the £25 and the next guess to band gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guess 1 gets first present of £25. Fletcher's pills are sold at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medicine vendors, or we will send a box with guess form for 13 penny stamps of any colony. All guesses will be entered in a book and numbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist 1892, and the presents sent out at once to the lucky guessers. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision. [CERTIFICATE.] 22-6-91. We have this clay seen a Walker's whisky bottle filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many pills are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W. H. Goddakd, Manager, Ernest Lyons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, Nowtown, Sydney. We cannot enter into correspondence about the competition, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Eesults and names of successful puessers will be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed envelope, and not otherwise. F. M. Clements, Newtown, Sydney.