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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 448, 20 December 1866, Page 3

Seizure op a Cutter. —A cutter named the Willie Winkia has been seized at the Thames. The captain had previously been fined for selling spirits to natives.

Incorrect Information. —Lately the Wellington Independent published some information which was copied into most of the southern journals to the effect that another half-regiment was to be sent out to this colony. This the Advertiser of a later date says is “entirely without foundation. Neither his Excellency the Governor nor his Ministers have received any intimation on the subject, and no mention of it was made in the latest despatches.”

The Auckland Patent Slip.—The Beautiful Star has had the honor of being the first iron vessel placed for repair on Mr Nicol’s patent slip at the North Shore. The Beautiful Star has, luckily for herself, a false bottom, -which forms a watertight compartment, or three holes knocked in her bottom, somewhere on the coast, mighthaveproved a more serious affair: as it was, she was able to finish her trip after receiving the injury, and lay up at leisure for repair. Not only hare we in harbor in the Waitemata a patent slip, but in Auckland an iron foundry, that of Messrs Vickery & Masefield, with machinery and workmen capable of repairing the largest piece of iron contained in the Great Eastern herself, were she to meet with an accident in these waters. It is a pity indeed that we have not a dry dock capable of receiving large vessels, we might then compete with any port in these colonies, as a harbor of refuge for disabled ships. The Beautiful Star was placed upon the slip at noon on Monday, when Mr Vickery found that she had three holes in her bottom. The broken plate was at once removed, and early on Thursday morning, a new plate having been fixed, she was launched, and the same afternoon was at her berth alongside the Queenstreet Wharf taking in a cargo for the South. Her Captain expressed his entire satisfaction with the manuner in which the work was completed by Messrs Vickery & Masefield, and At the expedition used by that firm. He could not, he said, have been better served in Sydney. We understand that the next iron vessel to undergo repair at Mr Nicol’s yards will be the Sturt, which, it is said, upon her arrival here will be placed upon theilip.—New Zealand Herald 14th Pecespber, \