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tVie Government clerks in regard to hours : " Lieut. -Governor's office, 21st June, 1S03. Notice 

 is hereby given that regular attendance for the transaction of the public business of the 

 !Province will in future be given at the office of the Secretary of the Province, the Executive 

 Council office, and the Surveyor-General's office, every day in the year (Sundays, Good Friday, 

 end Christmas day only excepted) from ten o'clock in the morning until three in the afternoon, 

 and from five o'clock in tnc afternoon until seven in the evening. By order of the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Jas. Green, Secretary." 



Soon after the appearance of this notice, it happened one forenoon that young Alexander 

 Macnab, a clerk in one of the public offices, was innocently watching the Governor's debarka- 

 tion from a boat, preparatory to his being conveyed up to the Council-chamber in a sedan-chair 

 Which was in waiting for liim. The youth suddenly caught his Excellency's eye, and was asked 

 — " What business he had to be there ? Did he not belong to the Surveyor^General's office ? 

 Bir ! your services are no longer required !'* 



For this same young Macnab, thus summarily dismissed. Governor Hunter, we have been 

 told, procured subsequently a commission. He attained the rank of captain and met a soldier's 

 fate on the field of "Waterloo, the only Upper Canadian known tb have been engaged or to have 

 fallen in that famous battle. (So late as 1S6S Capt. Macnab's Waterloo medal was presented, 

 by the Duke of Cambridge personally, to the KeV. Dr. Macnab, of Bowmanville, nephew of the 

 deceased officer.) 



Two stray characteristic items relating to Governor Hunter may here be subjoined. The 

 following was his brief reply to the Address of the Inhabitants of York on his arrival there in 

 1799. " Gentlemen : Nothing that is in my power shall be wanting to contribute to the happi- 

 ness and welfare of this colony." {Gazette, Aug. 24, 1799.) At Niagara, an Address from " the 

 mechanics and husbandmen " was refused by him, on the ground that an address professedly 

 from the inhabitants generally had been presented already. On this, the Constellation of Sep. 

 10, (1799), prints the following " anecdote," which is a hit at Gov, Hunter. " Anecdote. — When 

 Governor Simcoe arrived at Kingston on his way here to take upon him the government of tlie 

 Province, the magistrates and gentlemen of that town presented him Avith a very polite address. 

 It was politely and verbally answered. The inhabitants of the country and town, who move 

 not in the upper circles, presented theirs. And this also his Excellency very politely answered, 

 and the answer being in writing, is carefully jsreserved to this day." 



Among the patents carried home by Mr. Timothy Rogers, above named, were at least seven 

 in which he was more or less personally interested. His own lot was 95 on the west or King 

 side of Yonge Street. Immediately in front of him on the Whitchurch or east side, on lots 91, 

 92, 93, 94, 95, and 96, all in a row, were enjoyed by sons or near relatives of his, bearing the 

 n^mes respectively of Rufus Rogers, Asa Rogers, Isaac Rogers, Wing Rogers, James Rogers, 

 and Obadiah Rogers. 



Mr. Lundy's name does not appear among those of the original patentees ; but lots or portions 

 of lots in the " Quaker Settlement " are marked at an earlier period with the names of Shadraoh 

 Lundy, Oliver Lundy, Jacob Lundy, Reuben Lundy, and perhaps more. 



In the region just beyond the Ridges there were farmers also of the community known as 

 Mennonists or Tunkers. Long beards, when such appendages were rarities, dangling hair, 

 antique-shaped, buttonless, home-spun coats, and wide-brimmed low-crowned hats, made these 

 persons conspicuous on the street. On the seat of a loaded country-waggon, or on the back of 

 a solitary rustic nag, would now and then be seen a man of this community, who might pass 

 for John Huss or John a Lasco, as represented in the pictures. It was always curious to gaze 

 upon these waifs and strays from old Holland, perpetuating, or at least trying to perpetuate, 

 on a new continent, customs and notions originating in the peculiar circumstances of obscure 

 localities in another hemisphere three hundred years ago. 



Simon Menno, the founder and prophet of the Mennonists, was a native of Friesland in 1496, 

 He advocated the utmost rigour of life. Although there are, as we are informed, modernized 

 Mennonists now in Holland, at Amsterdam for example, who are distinguished for luxury in 

 their tables, their equipages and their country-seats, yet a sub-section of the community 

 known as Uke-Wallists, from one Uke Walles, adhere to the primitive strictness enjoined 

 by Menno. Their apparel, we are told, is mean beyond expression, and they avoid everything 

 that has the most distant appearance of elegance or ornament. They let their beards grow to 

 an enormous length ; their hair, uncombed, lies in a disorderly manner on their shoulders ; their 



