FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2755, 16 November 1891, Page 2

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle lias been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills, 'securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. JVb living soul knows hoic many piUa, the bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of pills contained in the bottle as follows : — Oue present of £25 for the nearest guess. „ „ „ £1 0 for the next nearest guet»s, >j>» m &'i for the next nearest guess.. , ; , j, „ £4 for the next nearest guess „■',,-■ „ £3 for the next ned rest guess. „ „ „ £2 for the next nearest guess. ■ ■' '" j» m )> £1 for the next nearast guess. ; Conditions: —^We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr Fletcher,^" Bilious and Liver Pills, are eligible to compete and the guess must be written on oiie of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box leaving our labora- . Tory after this date. In case two or more persons guess the correct number, the one first to_ hand will get the £25 and uxo next guess to hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the neareaj, ? gueas go^i the first present o| £25. Fletcher's jnlls arb sold at one snil,mg per box everywhere by ohemists, storekeepers knd patent medicine vendors, or we will send ,a box with guess form for 13 penny b tamps df any colony. ' All guesses will be entered in a boole and numbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the presents sent out atonce to the lucky guessers. This i competition- is a perfectly bona fide affair' apd arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr ! Fletoher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from ;poir*4ecißiofc. '■.-, V i»

[CERTIFICATE.] ']', 22-6-91. We Kayo tkis day Been a Walker' » wbifikey bottle filled Dr Fletcher's rills and securely corked and apaled. Ho one; knows how many pills are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist. 1892. „ . ,-,. ■■- ;-, „ ; . ■ ; W. Hi'Goirti&W k^nagef/ - Oommerci^l B^n^:, *•- j ■. „ - ; Newtown, Sydney. We cannot enter into correspondence about this competition, unless stamps for reply and addressed eayetopes are sont each 1 titr.s Results and namen of successful guessers wfll! be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed" envelope, and not otherwise. F. M. Clements, Newtown, By lney

,Weu,'s HUm Bixauc— 1£ gray, reforest