July 20, 1867
NEW GRAIN REGULATIONS COMING
Hon. Alexander Galt (Finance) has recommended new regulations for the drying, grinding, and packing of maize and other grains. The Order (1867-0028) is made under the authority of An Act to amend the Acts respecting duties of Excise and to alter the duty thereby imposed on Spirits, passed by the Legislative Assembly of Canada. The Order will be considered and approved on August 1, 1867.
MAYOR HUSTLED IN WOODSTOCK WHISKEY RIOT
William Inglis, Minister of the Canadian Presbyterian Church, Woodstock, Ontario, writes to the Editor of The Globe about a recent riot in Woodstock that was “neither a political nor a famine one, but simply a grand stand for the honour and privileges of whiskey.”
We have had the volunteers called out, the Riot Act read, the Mayor rudely hustled…, volunteers collared by ‘respectable’ rioters, the windows of railway cars smashed, a file of soldiers sent along in the cars to protect passengers, ‘respectable’ citizens treating the rioters in order to show their appreciation of their labours; scenes, I am told, of wild fantastic, most brutal drunkenness, and not a prisoner secured nor likely to be. Nay, not only that, but we have the leading breakers of the peace, ruffling and swelling along our streets like so many inflated turkey cocks, as if they had become about the most important personages in the land, and not a question asked of them, nor from all I hear, likely to be.
MAGILL REFUSES ONTARIO CABINET SEAT
Sandfield Macdonald was in Hamilton yesterday for the purposes of completing his cabinet. A meeting with Charles Magill, who was until recently mayor of this city, was held for the purposes of offering that gentleman the position of Receiver-General and concluded with Sandfield boarding a train bound for Haldimand in search of someone else to take the role.
QUEBEC’S EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
The Montreal Gazette reports that Hon. Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (Premier)’s full title will be Provincial Secretary and Registrar, and Minister of Public Instruction. M. Cauveau will appoint Dr. Louis Giard as Superintendent of Education. Dr. H. Miles, vice-principal and professor of mathematics at Lennoxville College will be appointed to the position of Secretary of Education.