FIFTY POUNDS FOr A GUESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3923, 26 September 1891, Page 2

FIFTY POUNDS FOr A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely Slled with Dr Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a eork one imh into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. No living soul knows how many pills the bottle contains. We agree to divide ±'so (fifty pouuda) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of pills contained in the bottle as follows; i

! One present of £25 for the nearest guess 1 „ „ „ £lO 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 tte next nearest guess i, „ ~£l forthe next neatest guesa Conditions : —We make no charge for the guef»i but only purchasers of Dr. Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and the gues3 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 getsthe £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, stoiekeepers 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 &book and numbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the presents sent cut at once to the lucky guesswrn. This competition is a perfectly bona fido affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, so thera can be no appeal from our decision.

[CERTIFICATE ] 22-6 01.

We have this 3ay seen a Walker's whiskey bottle filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many tbew are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W. H. Goddaed, Manager Krnest JUyons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, JSewtown, Sypney,

We cannot enter into correspondence about this compeMon, unless btamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent [ each time. Results and names of successful guessers will be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed envelope, and not otherwise. F. M. Clements, Newtown, Sydney.