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Dunstan Times, Issue 1100, 25 May 1883, Page 3

The Stranger is London— That tho Great City will ere long he hardly recognisable by its former denizma, all the world has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified by - the many edifices recently erected As he reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there ruses over him on the right hand 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 bo said that these two buildings are types of the far reaching I tininess energy of the nineteenth century, for it has results 1 from such means that there two establishments have brought themselves to the fore, and that tho annual issue of each has com i to be estimated by miliums. During the last year, the numoer of copies of the Times is estimaed at 16.276.(Hit. while tho number of pickets of lippss Cocoa sent off in the same period is c imputed at 14,749,695. 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 preparation of it such as I this, which by the simple addition of hoili \g water would yield a pala’ahle drink. Truly i time may bo said to work many changes.