OTAGO DAILY TIMES AND WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1899.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 17

OTAGO DAILY TIMES AND WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, 1899.

PltlZE TALE COMPETITION. The Proprietors of the Otago Daily Times 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 Christinas Annual, to be published ai the end of the current year. The tales will again be profusely illustrated, a fact which necessitates the MS. being in out hands somewhat earlier than would otherwise bo necessary. The illustrating will be placed in competent hands, and as the whole ' si>e will be printed on super-calendar paper, this feature of the Christmas Annual may again be looked forward to as one of Bpecial interest. Ten prizes will be awarded, ranging fro.-y £i to 10s, and totalling £27 10s. THE PRIZE TALE COMPETITION will extend from April 1 to Juno 30, an? PRIZES TO THE VALUE OP £27 10a wi.i

And tho proprietors reserve to themselves the Tight to use any other tale in the competition at the same rate of remuneration as the 30th prize. CONDITIONS OF THE PRIZE TALE COMPETITION. No tale to exceed 3000 words in length. While Colonial subjects will have the pre ference, tho Plot need not necessarily have i Colonial Foundation. Each tale to be accompanied by a speciallywritten description of the chief character oi the chief incident, which will be placed by thi publishers in the hands of a competent artis) to be sketched for reproduction as a half-torn engraving. As an .alternative to this a sketch of the character oi incident would be acceptable. The judging will be placed in the hands oi a thoroughly competent and independent authority, and the announcement of the award* will, if possible, be made a month aftei tht close of tho competition. All MS. to have a norn de plume attached, and to be accompanied by a sealed envelope addressed to the Editor of the Otago Witness, containing the writer's name and address, th« name of the tale^nd the norn de plume attached to the MS. This envelope will remiim unopened until the receipt of the awards from the judge. , . - All tales to be original and iho bona fide work of the writer. US. to bo in the Editor's liauds not later thaa FRIDAY, 30th JUNE. 1894 ,

le offered as below:^First Prize Second Prize .. Third Prize .<„ Fourth Prize .. Fifth Prize Sixth Prize Seventh Prize .. Eighth Prizo .. Ninth Prize Tenth Prize .. f • HI £-5 0 0 4 10 0 4 0 0 3 10 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 10 0 0 10 0