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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 8

Referring..to' the Hon. A. L. Herdman's retirement from politics, the Farmers' Union Advocate states : " His retirement is not merely a loss to the party, to which he allied himself, but it is a loss to the community, though he -will continue to serve the Dominion in the other important sphere."

A taxi-cab driver named Thomas Connolly was proceeded against by the police on a charge of negligent driving at Island Bay, on 28th January, when the car collided with a tramcar at the Hnm-ber-street stop, and of the nine passengers carried in the motor a woman had; her shoulder dislocated and a child sustained a fracture of the skull. The hearing was commenced yesterday afternoon, but was later adjourned and concluded this morning. Mr. J. O'Shea appeared for the City Corporation and Mr". A. W. Blair for the defendant. The defence was that the collision was purely accidental and was due to the sudden development of a defect in the steering gear. The Magistrate, Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., accepted the explanation and dismissed the information.

A lad named Richard' Martin, an. apprentice boilermaker at the Petone Railway Shop, had one of his eyes injured yesterday by a piece of flying steel. Ho was removed to the Wellington Hospital.

In connection with tho recent olaira by the New Zealand Slot Machine Company against W. Jiainior, proprietor of tho Foxton Picture Theatre, in respect of goods supplied to a machine alleged to have been unsatisfactory, Mr. E. M. Beechey appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. Barton for the defendant. At the hearing in Wellington, tho defendant was given an opportunity to demonstrate on (wo maehinei th&t pllfitfinst w*» pquibln, M.b*. »lleg«4 ,but.di.d.npt!.«uese«d.