Mr. Colin Campbell McLachlan, Proprietor of the Castle Hill Hotel, was born in 1877 at the Cust, and educated there at the public school. He then served some years at the butchering trade in the district, and afterwards opened a shop at Springfield, where he carried on business for four years, but sold out in August, 1902, to take over the Castle Hill Hotel. Mr. McLachlan was married, in 1898, to Miss Middleton, of Leithfield, and has one son.