TO-DAY THE LAST DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 76, 28 March 1903, Page 4

TO-DAY THE LAST DAY.

NOW OR NOT AT ALL-" THE OBNTUKY" OFFER TO END.

To dat " The Times " sale of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia and Atlas will be discontinued at the present prices; the opportunity to secure the great encyclopaedia of words and treasury of facts, as well as a complete atlas ot the world, at half the publishers' price, will be at an end. It has been impossible to cope with th» mass of orders for "The Century" which has reached "The Times" office, but receipts are being sent out as rapidly as prwible, and in the meantime subscribers' eh?quts will not be paid in to the baukeis until they have been acknowledged. A night shift of packers has been put to work, and every possible effort is being ma-ie to complete deliveries as soon as possible. Several envelopes containing cheques app \rently intended to cover payments for "The Century," but not affording any information as to the address to which volumes should be sent, are lying at "The Times" office. On account of the still greater mass of letters which will certainly reach "The Times" today, subECtibers are especially requested to exercise care in sending their orders and to refrain from porting a remittance uniccompatiied by an order form or a letter, and to be equally careful not to send an order fotm or letter of applicaI tien without a remittance. As it will be impossible to reply to-day to letters of inquiry, the following may serve to avert confusion. "The Century" is more thin a Dictionary, although i r i is the best Dictionrry of the Eiglish language ever published. It is also a Cyclopaedia of fac's. Not only are words defined, but things are described—not in long treatises or chapter?, but iu short, pithy articles, each under its own heading.