Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1891, Page 3

Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

An ordinary Wa'ker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. No Ih'nuj soul knows flow many pills the holtb- eonhuns. 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 :—• One 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 >, „ x£2 for the next nearest gues* „ „ „£1 for the net 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 compete and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shi ling box 1 aving our laborato y 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 hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct nu i ber, the nearest guess pets first present of £25. Fletcher's pills are so d 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 wil! be entered in'a book and numbered as received. '1 he bottle will be opened on January Ist 1892, aud 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 Pi Is, so there can be no appeal from our decision.