FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 3

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

As ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has 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. JVo living soul knows how many pills the bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the near guesses as to the number of pills contained in the bottle as follows: —

One present of £25 for the nearest guess. ~ „ „ £10 for the next nearest guess „ ii „£5 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£4 for the next nearest guess „ i, „£8 for the next nearest guess ~ „ ~ £2 for the next nearest guess „ „ ~£l for the next nearest guess j Conditions: —We 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 bo 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 guess to hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guess gets the first preseut of £25. Fletcher's pills are sold at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers, 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 numbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the presents sent out at once to the lucky guessers. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no'appeal from our decision.

[CERTIFICATE.] 1 22-6-91. We have this day seen a Walker's whisky bottle filled with Dr. Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. JS'o one knows how many pills are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist. 189-2. W. 11. Coddard, Manager, Ernest Lyons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, '-' : - Newtown, Sydney. • We cannot enter into correspondence about this competition, unless stumps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Results and names of successful guessers will be sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed : envelope, and not otherwise.—F. M. Clements, Newtown, Sydney. : ■ -- , • "■■■•^