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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 260, 26 April 1878, Page 9

11ussia>* cotton-spinners- will obtain', in time, a very important position in the manufacturing world. More than 3,500,000 pounds of cotton now come yearly to Russia from Central Asia, chiefly by the Orenburg railway to Nijtfi Novgorod, and Moscow, from Bokhara Khiva. Large quantities also begin to come from Turfan, and of a quality quite equal to any short cotton of the United States. Twenty years ago the arrival in llussia of a caravan from Asia was regarded as an extraordinary event.