LOCAL HISTORY.
I hop© my Milton chronicler does not think I have forgotten him when I publish the following short note on Roxburgh. What does " Tuapeka " mean, and how did Lawrence get its name? Who named "The Teviot"? Roxburgh, 7th August, 1906. I>ear Magister, — Re tie name ' Roxburgh," a very old resident tells m« that the first township was on the opposite side of the river, and that it waa called The Teviot." He also tells me that the present town was named by the party of surveyors who first surveyed it, some time- about the latter end of the sixties. A gTeat number of our streets are named /after towns and streams in Roxburghshire. Scotland. Quite a number of old miners still speak of this place as " The Teviot," of Lawrence as ' Tuapeka," and of Clyde aa "The Dunatan."— yours, truly, T. S. Becx.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2736, 22 August 1906, Page 13
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145LOCAL HISTORY. Otago Witness, Issue 2736, 22 August 1906, Page 13
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