"ROSENEATH."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 4

"ROSENEATH."

Sir—Of recent years I havo sovornl times seen tho spoiling "BosneatV and havo considered it an error. A Scotsman of culture and much literary ability, Mr. James Wood, arrived at Auckland about 1850, and joined tho "Southern Cross," of which ho became sub-editor. When Hawke's Bay seceded from Wellington under the Now Provinces Act, ho purchased from tho "Cross" a press and other requisites, and with two "improvers" proceeded to Napier, where in 1857 he .started .'tho "Herald. It prospered, and alxmt 1868 he bought a small estate in tho Meeanee district, near the present locality of Jorvoiston, and named it Rosencath. As far as I know, the original name-plate ■still.remains on the gate, and as he presumably followed the usual custom of transplanting familiar home names, at least ho succeeded in fixing tho spelling in Hawke's Bay. To this I may' add that in Bartholomew's excellent J'Citizens' Atlas of the World," there is one Roseneath, ''par. and oil, Dumbartonshire, •on Gare Loch." In any case, tho authority of the British postmark should be final.—l am, etc., AN OLD JOURNALIST.