Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 September 1891, Page 3

Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

— -♦ i I An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's I'ilLt, securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. No Jiving mill known how many pills the. bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of pills 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 „ „ „£2 for the next nearest guess „ „ i, £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 cojun pete and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box having 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 band gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guess gets first present of £25. Fletcher's pills are sod at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medicine vendors, or we will send a box w ith guess form for VI penny stamps of any colony. 1 All guesses will bo 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 "Pr Fletchev's Pi Is, so there can be no appeal from our decision. [CERTIFICATE.] - 22-fi-i)l. We have this clay seen a Walker's whisky bottle filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills and securely cor'.ed and sealed. No one knows how many pi Is are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1802. W. H. Gomuim, Manager, Ernkst Lyons, Accountant. Commercia' Bank, Newtown, Sydney. We cannot enter into correspondence about the competition, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Besults and names of successful puesscrs will be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed envelope, and not otherwise. P. M. C'emonts, Newtown, Sydney.