Sons of Neptune.

Leading spirits among the descendants of the pioneer Scottish Highland-Nova Scotian settlers of Waipu, in North Auckland, are having a historical record of the settlement compiled.

To the clan lists of Waipu, Mahurangi and Omaha, there really ought to be added the tribe MacNeptune. They were amphibious bushmen and ploughmen, for nearly every man of them had had a turn at the sea some time or other. Two or three of the barques and brigs which brought the Nova Scotians out to this part of the world from cold and bleak Cape Breton were manned by families. There was a doughty Hielan'man named Meiklejohn, who built a vessel in a Nova Scotian bay and sailed it to New Zealand; his nine sons formed the crew. The patriarch and his family settled at Big Omaha, where they built many a brigan-tine and schooner for Auckland owners.