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Kumara Times, Issue 2092, 15 May 1883, Page 2

The Stranger in London. —That the Great City will ere long be hardly recognisable by its former denizens, 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 rises over him on the right hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs James Epps and Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the farreaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it has resulted from such means that these two establishments have brought themselves to the fore, and that the annual issue of each has come to be estimated by millions. During the last year, the number of copies of the Times is estimated at 16,276,000, while the number of packets of Epps’s Cocoa sent off in the same period is computed 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 425,3821b5., there then existing no preparation such as this, which by the simple addition of a little boiling water would yield a palatable drink. Truly time may be said to work many changes.— [Adyx.]