Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 175, 14 September 1891, Page 3

Fifty Pounds for a Guess.

An ordinary Walker’s whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr. Fletcher’s Pills, st’cmeiy corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in tho charge of ihc Commercial Bank, Newtown,Sydney. No living sovl knows how many pills ihe hoi fie contains. We agree to divide £SO (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 tho nearest guess. „ „ ~ £lO for the next nearest guess, ~ „ „ £5 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „ £4 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „ £3 for the next nearest guess. ~ „ „ £2 for the next nearest guess. „ ~ £1 for tho next nearest guess.

Conditions We make no charge for tho guess, but only purchasers of Dr. Fletcher’s Bilious and Liver Pills are eligible to compote, and the guess must bo written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling bos 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 £lO and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guess gets the first present 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 bo entered in a book and numbered as received. Tho bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the presents sent out at once to the lucky guesaers. This cornpetion is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for tho purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher’s Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision.

[■CERTIFICATE.] 22-6*91. We have (his day seen a Walker’s whiskey bottle filled with Dr Fletcher’s Pills and securely corked and scaled. No one knows how many pills are in tho bottle, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W. If. Goddard, Manager, Eknkst 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 gucsscrs will bo sent to everybody who sends two penny stamps and addressed envelope, and not otherwise, F. M. Clemen’s, Newtown, Sydney.