Fifty Pounds for a Guess

Southland Times, Issue 11899, 21 November 1891, Page 3

Fifty Pounds for a Guess

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle hat been completely filled with Dr. Fletcher'i Pills, 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 the bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for th« nearest guesses as to the number of pUJs contained in the bottle as follows: — One present of £25 for the nearest guess i » »> j>t£ 10 for the next nearest guess. „ „ -.■' „£5 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „£4 for the next nearest guess. >» »4„, £3 for the next nearest guess. » »» '•., £2 for the next nearest guess. „ ,£. '„ £1 for the next nearest guess. Conditions: — We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr. Fletcber'i Billious and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and the guess must be written on one oJ our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box 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 £10 and so on. In caw nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guest gets the first present of £25. Fletcher's Pills are sold at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeeper! and patent medicine vendors, or we will send a box with guess form for 13 penny stamp* 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 guessera. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affaii and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, bo there can be no appeal from our decision. V