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Dunstan Times, Issue 1093, 11 May 1883, Page 3

The Stranger ik Lokdun— That the Great City will ere long he hardly recognisable hy its former denizens, all the w .rid has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified bv the many edifices recently erected As he reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there raes over him on the right band the new Times Office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs James Epps & Co., both phase* of Italian architecture. It may be sai l that these two buildings are tynea of the far reaching V usiness energy of 'he nineteenth century, for it has resulte I from such means that these * wo establishments have brought themselves t > the fore, and that the annual issue of each has com r to he estimated by millions. During the last year, the number of copies of the Times is cstima’ed at 16,276,01)0, while the number of packets of Epps's Cocoa sent off in the same period is computed at 14,740,695. The latter is a large total, when it is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption of Cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was but 425,382 lbs., there then existing no prepaie.tion of it such as j this, which by the simple addition of boiling | water would yield a palatable drink. Truly < ime may bo said to work many chan.grp fid'll '