FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3993, 19 December 1891, Page 3

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Walker's whisky bottle haa been completely filled 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 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 gaefts „ „ „ £lO for the next nearest guess i, „£4 for the next nearest guess i, „ „£3 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£2 for the next nearest guess ~ „ ~£l for the next neai est guess Conditions : —We make no charce for the guess, but ouly purchasers of Dr Fletchers Bilious and Liver Pills are eligiblflk compete and the guess must be wriran on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every ■hilling box leaving our laboratory after 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 £lO and so on. In e «ae 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, stotekeepere and patent medicine vendois, or we will send a box with guess form lor 13 penny stamps of any colony. Ail guesses will be entered in & book and nu.nbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the preseuts sent cut at once to the lucky guessero. This competition is a, perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing L/r. Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision. [CERTIFICATE] 22-6 91. We have this flay Been 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 Ebnest Ltons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, . Newtown, Sydney, We cannot enter into correspondence about this compe'ion, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are r°nt each time. Results and names of successful guessers will be sent to everybody who sends two penny Btamps and a self addressed envelope, and not otherwise.F M. Clements, Newtown, Sydney.