SHORT STORY COMPETITION.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue VI, 10 August 1895, Page 183

SHORT STORY COMPETITION.

Prizes will be given for short stories on the following conditions:—

Fur the best story written by any consin of the New Zealand Graphic under 17 years of age 10 0 For the best story by any consin under 14 5 0 For the best story by any cousin under 10 2 6 RULES. 1. The stories must be written on one side of the paper only, mast be entirely original, suitable for Christmas time, and must not exceed five hundred words in length. 2. The stories must be addressed to the Lady Editor, Graphic Office, Auckland, and must bear the words, commercial papers only, story competition, in the top left corner of the envelope or wrapper. For postage see usual notice to cousins.

3. All stories must reach the Graphic Office by Monday, October 14th, and mnst be signed by teacher or parent to certify that they are really the writer’s own work. 4. The age of the cousin mnst be clearly written at the end of each story. Anyone who likes can now become a cousin and try for the competition, but only consins are eligible, and it is hoped that all will try for the prizes, which will be withheld in the event of no story being of sufficient merit. M.S.S. can be sent in as soon as the cousins like.

Dear Cousin Kate.—l wish to tell you abont my little brother Gandin. He is eighteen months old, and so amnsing yon would think he was two years. My sister pnt him in tronsers the other day, and he made us all langh the way he toddled along, and when be tumbled over he took abont five minntes to get up. I send a few conundrums for my fellow consins.—Cousin Ernest.

[Thank yon for the riddles. Will yon please, Ernest, pnt them another time on a separate piece of paper, and the answers on another piece. What a little darling Gandin must be ! I was playing this afternoon with a baby of abont fifteen months, and he tried to drink out of a gallon tin dipper, and got his head in it, of course, as it was so large. We all laughed, and he got his head out, and laughed too, and ran off with the dipper. I hope yon and all the cousins will try for the prize story. There is plenty of time for me to answer any questions abont it.—Cousin Kate. ]