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Patea Mail, 2 December 1881, Page 3

Egmont Nominations took place at noon to-day, at Hawera, Mr Wray acting as Returning Officer. The two candidates were nominated, as reported elsewhere. The number of voters on the Egmont roll is 1,732. One of Hornsby’s mowers was tried yesterday on the Domnin ground, and did the rough work with remarkable ease and cleanness. It is Mr H. Riseloy’s machine, and is a combined mower and reaper, with gearing to adjust for either kind of work. It cut a heavy crop on ground part of it rather rough, and made a good job. Referring to the letter signed “ Penuy-a-Liner” in last issue, Mr G. A. Hurley desires it to be known that the copy sent to this office was not written by his own hand, but that another person made a copy from his manuscript by request. The public may be in a state of anxiety on the matter, and so we publish his explanation. Why a “ penny-a-liner” could not send his own manuscript to this office is another question. He showed his original letter to one of our assistants, who told him it was so much altered and interlined as to be hardly suitable for the printers.