FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

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 ueck and seated and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, Newtownj Sydney. A r o living soul knows how many ills the bottle contains. We p agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the nearest gueeses as to the number of pills contained/ in the bottle as follows :—: — One> present of £25 for the nearest guesa. „ „ „ £10 for the next „ „ „ „ „£5 for » he „ „ „ »?t f° rt £ c "• » » ' > .. »x> 6 for the „ „ „ „ „ „£2 for the „ „ „ » » >,£1 for the „ „ „ Conditions : — We make do charge for the guess, but only ourcbastrs of Dr Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and the guess must be written on one of onr printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling: box leaving our laboratory after this date, la case two or nrre persons guess the correct number, the one first to hand will get the £25 and the Dext guees 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 pills are sold at one shilling per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medicine vendors, or we will send a box wih guess form for 13 penny stamps of any colony. AH guesseß will be entered in a book and numbered as received. The bottle' will be opened on J nuary Ist, 1892, and the presents sent at once to the lucky gueesors. Ibis competi ion is a perfectly bcna fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr Fletcher's I'illfi, so there can be no appeal from our decision.