FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 5 December 1891, Page 3

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky botrle has been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills, securely corked wirh a eork one imh into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Com* mercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. No living soul knows how many pills the bottle contains. We agree to divide j£so (fifty pouuds) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of pills con ained in the bottle as follows

One present of £25 for the nearest guess „ „ ~ £lO for the next nearest cuess

~ „ £5 for the next nearest guess „ „ „£4 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£3 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£2 for the next nearest guess „ „ ~£l for the next neai est guess ConditionsWe 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 gueßßto hand gecsthe £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 a book and nu,iifoered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist; 1892, and the presents sent cut at once to the lucky guesser*. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing I'r. Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision. [CERTIFICATE ] 22-6-91. 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. Goddakd, Manager Ernest Lyons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, .Newtown, Sydney. We cannot enter into correspondence about fhis compe'uon, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Results and names of successful guessers w jll be sent to eyerybody who sends two penny stamps and a.self addressed envelope, and not M. Clementa, Newtown. Sydney.