FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3899, 29 August 1891, Page 3

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Er Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a eork one imh into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Com~ mercialßank, Newtown, Sydney. No living soul knows how many }>ills the bottle contains. We agree to divide £SO (fifty pouuds) in prizes for the nearest guesses aa to the number of pills contained to the bottle as follows ; One present of £25 for the nearest guess „ „ „ £lO for the nest nearest euess „ ~ „£5 for the next nearest guess „ „ „£i for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£3 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „ £-2 for the next nearest guess „ „ ~£l for the next neai est guess Conditions :—We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr. Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box leaving 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 hand getathe £lO and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number the nearest guess gets the first present of £25. Fletcher's pills are sold at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medircine 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 cut at once to the lucky guessars. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, bo there can be no appeal from our decision.

[CERTIFICATE] 22-691. We have this day seen a Walker's whiskey bottle filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many there are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W, H. Goddaed, Manager. Kbnest Ltons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sypney,

We cannot enter into correspondence about this competion, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Besults and names of successful guessers will be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and ad. dressed envelope, and not otherwise. V M. Clements, Newtown, Sydney.