FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 49, 11 September 1891, Page 5

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr. Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a cork one inch into the neck and sealed and placed in the charge of the Commercial Bank, X ewtown, Sydney. No living soul knows Turn many pills the bottle contains. We agree to divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prises for the t.eirest guesses as to the number of pills contained in the bottle M follows : — One present of £25 for the nearest guess. „ „ „ £10 for the next nearest ?uess. „ ,i „ £5 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „ £4 for the next nearest guess. )t „ „£3 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „ £2 for the next nearest guess. „ „ „ £1 fcr the next nearest guess. Conditions :— We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr. Fletcher's Bilious and Liver PjUs are eligible to compete and the guess must b^ written on one of 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 cumber, tbeooe first to hand will get the £25 and the next guess to hand gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct nvmber, 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 f >r 13 penny stamps 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 guessers. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision.