THE NAME ROSENEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 5

THE NAME ROSENEATH.

SOME INTERESTING FACTS. The faot that'the "Glasgow:'"Herald* , in 'chronicling: the unfurling of the naff sont to Scotland by the Eoseneath School, , Wellington, spent the name Eosneatn on ; each occasion it was used;-led terdav to comment on the spelling of the word. Mr. R, Darroch, headmaster of the — , Rosenopth. School, states that though tho '^Herald'-'; omitted.", the first e, the postmarks oil letters and postcards he had received from the headmaster _of the school at Eoseneath, Garelochside, ; spelt the word as We do the schoolmaster himeslf : dropped the first .__. "e" Mr.'Darrochy who has been'look- ■■• ink into the matter,.. states that Eoseneath. (Oriental Bay) .was so named by a Scotchman named' Mr. Wil hamson, ons of the first settlers on the .harbour, pro. montory, and when .late Mr. WUj ; kih'son (of Oriental ■ Bay), father of.tha present proprietor) of. the tea. gardens, settled in .the Bay, he .celled his .property, the Eoscneatli Gardens, he having beenl,., ; at one 'time.a..gardener;'at.' Rcsenedtn,;;.'.; j i Scotland. ' .„,.,. i-'., ....'... -..,.....„.^ . (To the Editor.) Sir—ln reference to the' unfurline oi \ the Eoseneath School flag by the Princess Louise Duchess of Argyle, the account . .: of which you extract from the Glasgow Herald." It may interest your readers to know that the name Eoseneath, as applied' to a district in Wellington, is ft . ■ ; direct importation from the Eoseneath or*._ • the Gareloch of Argyleshire. Whatever difference of spelling the "Glasgow Her- ; ■,-.' aid" may give, there is no mistake as* j to the identity of the words. •■ The father' ;!..',; of the present proprietor of Roseneato.; Oriental Bay, having been gar*;; • .. cner to the. Duke oh the Eoseneath pro-; , perty, gave the name bo the property ha>,. , himself ■ latterly acquired in the early, days of this city. Sentiments of this kind cling to many, as you know, whocome out from the Old Home ihat property still is the 1 nucleus of the Kosenoatrf. ; district. The present proprietor gave mo these facts on reading to him a letter I , had from the clerk of works on the Argvta Estates, who was at the time ho wrote engaged upon the reconstruction of Eoseneath Castle, that had been partially,,, destroyed by fire.—l am, etc., -. A CONSTANT READER.- ;