The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1272, 16 May 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1883.

The official declaration of the poll will take place at the Court House, Reefton, on Friday, at noon. It is announced that a meeting of the committee of the Reefton Railway League will be held this afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Mr E. Wakefield was entertained at a public banquet in Dawson'a Hotel last night. The attendance was very large, and the banquet passed off most successfully. Mr Wakefield left for Greyraouth this morning. In an interval between the arrival of the polling returns on Monday night lost, when the hopes of the Wakefielders were at the highest, the most enthusiastic of his supporters hoisted the candidate shoulder high, and carried him round the town amid deafening cheers. The performance had, however, hnrdly been completed when the arrival of a fresh return sent the scale the other way, and therefore up went the other candidate, and he too i made the rounds of the town, followed by his supporters. 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 rijfht hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs. James Epps & Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the far reaching 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 Epp'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 425,1*82 lbs., there' then existing no preparation of it such as this, which by the simple addition of boiling water would yield a . palatable drink. Truly time may be said to work many changes. [Advt.]