FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9206, 7 October 1891, Page 4

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Watker'n whisky hottle lios been oompletf ly rilled with I'r. Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a corK one inch into the ueck aud sealed and placed in tbe charge of iho Uomniercial Bunk, Newtown, Sydney. iVo living soul knows hoio many ills the bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the nearost guesßes as to tho number of pills contained in the bottle us follows :—: — Onb present of £25 for tho nearest guess. „ „ „ £10 for the next „ „ „ „ „£5" for the „ „ „ „£4 for the „ „ „ , , „ „£3 for the „ „ „ „ „ „£2 for the „ „ „ „ „ „£1 for the „ „ „ Conditions : — We make -no charge for tbe guess, but v ouly purchasers of Dr Fletcher's Bilious nnd Liver Pills are eligible to competo and tho guess must be written on one of oar printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box leaving our laboratory after this date. In case two or imre persons suesa the correct number, tbe one first to hand will get the £25 and the next guoes to hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number, the nearest guees gels 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 Bund a box with guess fona for 13 penny stamps of any colony. All guesseß will be tntcijjjd in a book and numbered as- received!, 1 The bottle will be v opene<T off J nuary Ist,' 1892, and the presents Bent at once to the lucky guesaors. Ibis competi ion is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing^ Dr - Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no' appeal from oujt decision. [CERTIFICATE.] '" •' 22 6-91. , We have this day seen a Walker's whiskey bottle ftHer) with Dr Fletcher's Pilla and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many pilla are in the bottl«j, which is now secure in' our safe until January Ist," 1892. ' W. H. Goddaud, Manager, | Ernest Lyons, Accountant. ■ Commercial Bank, Newtuwn, Sydney. Wo cannot enter into correspondence about this competition, unlosa stamps for reply aud addressed envelopes are sent each ! iiue. lleeults and names o£ euccossfill guePKeis will bo sent to everybody who toadß twopenny stiim c and addresser! envelope, and not otherwise. F* M. Clemfntp, Newtown, Sydney.