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Patea Mail, 27 January 1882, Page 4

The recent telegram about 8,000 Russian troops being at Askabad, in southern Turkestan, must be regarded as a deliberate notification of the Czar’s policy, because all these telegrams come from official sources. During the winter months, the Russian frontier near Khiva and Merv is absolutely cut off from Europe, save by the one line of telegraph running north to Semipolatinsk. No mails travel except for military purposes, and the only information that reaches other countries is what the general in command chooses to send. Kansas has now a law forbidding the sale and manufacture of all alcoholic drinks, no matter in what way they may be made, at a stroke destroying the business and dissipating the capital which has been the life work of many eminently respectable men, besides throwing out of work thousands of others, and interfering with the liberties of many more. Every beverage containing alcohol must be procured from a druggist upon a physician’s prescription.