FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 27 August 1891, Page 34

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's Fills, securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney. No LIVING SOUL KNOWS HOW MANY PILLS THH 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 : — One present of £25 for the nearest guess. „ „ „ £10 for the next nearest guess. n „ „£5 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „£4 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „£3 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „£2 for the next nearest gaess. M „ „£1 for the next nearest guess.

Conditions : — We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Fills are eligible to compete, and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped round every shilling box leaving our laboratory after this date. In case two or more persons gaess the correct number, the one first to hand will get the £25 and the next gness to hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guess gets the first present of £25. Fletcher's Fills 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 Fills, so there can be no appeal from our decision.

[CERTIFICATE.]

22-6-91.

We have this day seen a Walker's whisky bottle filled withDr Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many pills are in the bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W. H. Goddabd, Manager. Ernest Lyons, Accountant.

Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney.

We cannot enter into correspondence about this competition, unless stamps 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, NewtowD, Sydney.

The Anstrian Minister of the Interior has recently issued an ordinance that tho burgomasters of ell communes mast exercise strict supervision over the medical men practising within their jurisdiction in the matter of legibility of prescriptions. They are charged to see that every prescription is clearly and legibly written in all its parts, so that there may be no doubt aa to the remedy, the dose, or the signature,