OTAGO DAILY TIMES AND WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1899.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11398, 15 April 1899, Page 6

OTAGO DAILY TIMES AND WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1899.

PRIZE TALE COMPETITION. The Proprietors of the Otago Daily Time* and Witness beg to announce that a Prize Tale Competition on the same lines .as .thai of last year. will "be held in. connection with their Christmas Annual, to be published at the end of the current year. ~ . . , ■■•-■■ The Tales will again be profusely illustrated, a fact which necessitates the MS. being in our hands somewhat earlier than would. otherwise be necessary. The. illustrating will be .placed in competent hands, and as. the whole .issue will be printed on super-calendar paper, this .feature of' the Christmas Anuual mayi again:, tie looked forward to as one of special interest. Ten prizes will be awarded, ranging from £5 to 10s, and totalling £27 10s. . . ' '; THE PRIZE TALE COMPETITION'; : will extend from April 1 to June. 30, and PRIZES ■TO THE VALUE ..OF £27 10s : ; will 'be offered as below:—■ ;■. :■•'■■ y First Prize .. .. .. £5 0 0 Second Prize .. .. ... 410 0 Third Prize .. ..: ~. '■* 0 0 :. Fourth Prize ... .., .. - 3 10 0 , Fifth Prize ... .. .. 3. .0 0 . Sixth Prize .. .. .. 210 0 Seventh Prize.. ..., ..200. Eighth Prize 110 0 . Ninth. Prize .. ..'•". :. ■10 0:. : Tenth Prize .. .. ..0 10 :0 ■ And the proprietors reserve to themselves ths right to use any other tale in the competition at the same rate of remuneration as the 10th prize. CONDITIONS OF THE PRIZE TALE '■■' • • COMPETITION. .. ,;■ . No tale to exceed 3000 words in length. .-.■'. While Colonial Subjects will have the pre. ference, the Plot need not necessarily have .a Colonial Foundation. : * Each tale to be accompanied by a. speciallywritten description of the chief characters or the chief incident, which will be placed by the publishers in the hands of a competent artist to be sketched, for reproduction as a half-tone engraving. As an alternative to this a sketch ; of the character or incident would be acceptable. ' ... The judging will be placed in the hands of a thoroughly competent and independent authority, and the announcement of the awards will, if possible, he made a month after the close of the competition. . .; All MS. to have a norn de plume attached, oii'l to be accompanied by a sealed envelope addressed to the Editor of the Otago Witness, containing the writer's name and address, the name of the tale, and the nom.'de plume attached to the MS. This envelope will remain unopened until t!ie receipt of the awards from the judge.' All tales to be original, and the bona fid« work of the writer. .''■''. MS. to be in the Editor's hands not: latei than ■■■-.■■ FRIDAY, 30th JUNE, 1899.