CONUNDRUMS WANTED.
For the purpose of exercising the originality of our youngsters at the coming Christmas and New Year parties, the Waterbury Wutch Company will give ope of their now watches to the boy and girl under 60 years of ago who will send in the best original pun, joke, conundrum, charade or acrostic on the Waterbury Watch to the Waterbury Watch Company, P.O. Box 199. DunediD, not later than 7th January, '92. Acrostics must noo bo uny more abstruse than the third problem in Euclid, puns nob more than ordinarily villainous, and any jokes submitted musb be pungent enough to'dawn on tho average Scotchman within one week from the period of administration. Any communications which do nob come up to thesestandards will nob be übilised, and if anything more than usually brilliant appears in our advertising, everyone will have a chance of laying claim to it. The four veracious anglers who caught the plaster of paris trout in " Three Men in a Boat " will be nowhere with the people who will have contributed anonymously every euaarfe. tiling tnat we may receive.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1892, Page 6
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182CONUNDRUMS WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1892, Page 6
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