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17. Riga ; rough-dressed. Average strength, 90. 18. Archangel; rough. Average strength, 89. 19. Archangel; dressed. Average strength, 112. 20. Pita. Presented by Mr. Voge! 21. Escoba. Presented by Mr. Vogo! 22. Plaintain fibre; a poor sample, having heated on the voyage. Presented by Mr. Voge! 23 Ramie; grown in New Orleans, but has been for several months lying under a shed. Presented by Mr. Voge! 24. Agave sisilana(?). Dressed in Patrullo's machine. Presented by Mr. Voge!

CLASS B. Vl.—. c.—Rope, &c. Manilla Rope Expebimented on by Me. Kebbell, to compaee with Rope made of New Zealand Flax. 1. Manilla Rope. Tested dry ; run through pulleys for twenty days ; travelling a distance of 173 miles before it gave way. Maximum stretch, 2'6 per cent.; maximum shrink, -47 per cent. Commissioners. 2. Manilla Rope. Saturated with salt water every four days ; run through pulleys for twenty-two days ; travelling a distance of 190 miles before it gave way. Maximum stretch, I'9 per cent.; maximum shrink, 11-0 per cent. Commissioners. 3. Sample of 2-inch Manilla Whale Line. W. Gibson, Wellington. Samples, lent by the Auckland Institute, to Illusteate Me. Tinne's Lectuee (See Appendix.). The Numbees aee those used in the Lectube. No. 1. New Zealand Flax Rope. New. No. 2. Rope. Same as No. 1. Used on a voyage to New Tork. No. 3. New Zealand Flax. Tarns from an old rope, to show that they will not work up for the centre of new rope like Manilla. No. 4. Leaves cut near Christchurch, in 1866. Were used as "dunnage" for a cargo ; lay about for two years, and then £7 a ton was refused for them. No. 5. Same as No. 4. Steeped in a solvent, and cleansed by patent machinery. Fetched £22 a ton, and yielded 55 per cent, of fibre. Nos. 6, 7, 8. Received for treatment in Brazier's softening machine. No. 6, quite intractable. No. 7, softened to the condition of No. 8. No. 9. Sacking, woven in Dundee. 10. Same as No. 9. Heavily rolled. 11. Cloth, made some years ago. 12. Irish Flax. Raw. 13. ~ Cleaned and softened. 14. Manilla. 15. Dutch Flax. 16. Swiss „