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Evening Star, Issue 2946, 29 July 1872, Page 4

New Zealand Hemp.— A Wellingcl ton contemporary of July 17 says :—A roll of unbleached broad sheeting, manufactured from pure phormium fibre, received by the Albion from Dr Featherston, is now on view in the Colonial Museum. It has been made from yarn prepared by Mr Thorne’s patent process, in which the fibre is cleansed chiefly lay a chemical method. The usual weakness of the yarn prepared by this process appear# to have been almost entirely overcome by tl Q manner in which it has be«n spun and woven, so that the fabric produced is quite equal in strength to that made from tiue flax. This is only a portion of what has been made, and a variety of other manufactuies, such as towelling, etc., is shortly ex* pected. Shag Valley Reefs.—The result of the crushing which has for the past few weeks been so anxiously looked forward to on the part of all those interested in the prospects of this reef has at length been made known, and, although the stone has not turned out so ■well as those of more singuine temperaments anticipated, it has, on the whole, been declared satisfactory. The yield of gold from 100 tons of stone crushed from Duncan’s Claim is reported to have realised L3OO, or averaged something like fifteen pennyweights to the ton. Trial crushings from the Company’s claims (Prospectors’) has shewn a similar yield. From this it is to be inferred that the gold is pretty evenly distributed through the stone, and that, although the quartz is not rich, it is sufficiently payable to afford profitable employment to a large number of miners, and the probabilities arc that be ter slpno ■will yet be unearthed : at least this is the opinion of experienced Victorian quartz miners. Those who already possess claims on the line of thereof are, wc understand, determiner! to hold on to them, and are sanguine of being well repaid for their labor and outlay.— Walkoualii Herald.