AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
PRIZE COMPETITION.
The prize competition in connection with the Christmas number of the AUCKLAND Weeilt News has come to be looked upon as a permanent and welcome feature of that popular journal's Yuletide issue. This year the competition will be for the best, the most original, and most readable story or account of how a fortune has been lost, or a golden opportunity missed. There is, the poet tells us, a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. There is probably no other part of the world that can furnish more instances of chances that have knocked at our door and not been admitted than these colonies. The streets of their cities, the dreary expanses of their pastoral solitudes, the sombre gulches of their goldfields, are haunted by the ghosts of the ff hat-might-have-beens. All of us must have, some pergonal knowledge of men who have been within an. ace of becoming rich beyond the dreams of avarice, but who at the crucial moment ' turned to the right or the left and so missed the unknown fortune thab another step ahead would have made theirs. It is these stories that we want our readers to send us for the prize competition in the Christmas Number of the News, and we offer for the three best the following amounts First Prize £5 5 0 Second Prize 3 3 0 Third Prize 110 The competitions should be written on one side of the paper only, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope, containing. the name of the writer of the story, with the title and his or her nom de pfome written outside, The stories must not exceed in length 2000 words, but may be of any. length under that maximum. All 'competitions should be addressed— Competition Editor, ! Auckland Weekly News, , u> '. > 'i ■•-Auckland. ' ..." • And should reach the office of the News not later"than September;; 30.' ' .The* stories that are awarded, prizes will be published in ! the Christmas, Number • of i the News, together. with a selection of a few of the best of the non-prize, takers. t We cannot undertake to return unused MSS. unless the writers enclose postage Btimps for that purpose. ■>:- •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10520, 13 August 1897, Page 5
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