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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 151, 24 March 1876, Page 6

A preparation of coik known as cuir liege is attracting considerable attention in Paris. The cork is cut into fine sheets or strips, and covered on each side with a skin of India rubber. It thus lcsos its fragibility and keeps all its advantages. It is perfectly water-tight, is heat-proof, and light as a feather, while its strength is such that a strip of it an inch and a half wide has been holding up a 1000-pound weight for six weeks. Boots, buckets, portmanteaus, hat?, knapsacks, ambulance tents, awiangs, and many other articles are made of it, and it is proposed to veneer thicker sheets of iWith iancy woods, and make carriages of them.