"Missing Word" Competition.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2320, 7 January 1893, Page 4

"Missing Word" Competition.

The following mail telegiam explains •everal cables which have reoently been published :— Tbe "missing ward" competition ot persona of penny weeklies is. now the rage In England. An editor prints a paragraph With the last word, usually an adjective, missing. He invites bis readers to guess the word at a shilling a try and then divides the pot money among the winners. In one competition, which closed for the week of November 26th, tbe pool contained £2400, ana each of the £40,000 winners received almost £80. Many of the English Poßt Offices were sold out of shilling postal orders on the week ending December Brd. This is' the latest effeot of tbe '• missing word " craze that has flefced the country. The pool received daring tbe week amounted jto over 217,000 shillings, eaoh accompanied by a guess as to the misßing word in the phrase printed the week before. Tbe sentence occurred at the end of a paragraph describing the praotioe of the Bomans, who, when they invaded Britain, are said to have beaten their bare legs with nettles In order to neutralise the effects of the cold : The dosing sentence was, " To our minds suob vigorous treatment hardly ■eems The nool of £10.400

p . Waa divided amongst 87G competitors, who pent in the word " enjoyable."