Good news for the restaurateurs, a new restaurant has been opened in Melbourne at 78 Yarra St. Heidelberg called "Robbie Burns Restaurant" complete with their own piper and band. Try it, you will enjoy.

Also be sure and visit the standing stones at Glen Innes, a fitting memorial to commemorate the contribution of the Celtic Races to the building and prosperity of our Australian Nation and to the society of our people.

And so we extend a continuing invitation to overseas travellers to call on our beautiful country and receive some "Dinki Di Aussie Friendship". See you one day. Cheers!

" Bert Hunter

Clan Officer Australia

NEWS FROM SCOTLAND

The estate shepherd Danny Somers had a very good lambing season. His ewes produced about 1400 cross lambs and these are fattening well and will be ready for market shortly.

Much time and effort had to be given to clearing up after the disastrous fire which destroyed North Cottage.

The totalloss of the sawmill and the adjacent wood workshop have been particularly felt by Ian Menzies, whose complaint was that at one stage he hadn't even a handsaw, let alone power tools.

In the last issue of CLAN HUNTER NEWS comment was made on the timber clearing operation on the rock ridge"named Broomcraigs which flanks the road from Campbelton to Goldenberry. The General's tank continues to stand like a gigantic nursery night-light. The logs that were lying on Broomcraigs have practically all been collected off the ground, but lacking the big circular saw, nothing has been able to be done towards reducing them to firewood. In place of the felled timber, the ground along the Broomcraigs ridge was replanted during March 1993. An area of about three acres was involved, with conservation in mind. On the western side-of the ridge, which is exposed to the prevailing gales, pine and spruce were used to form a shelter belt. The eastern side, which derives a measure of protection from Campbelton Hill, received a variety of deciduous trees including rowan, birch, gean (wild cherry), ash, beech and sycamore. Some of these have been protected by plastic tubes to prevent damage by rabbits and deer.

During the last weekend in March the South West Scotland Caravan Club held a rally at Hunterston, the vans being based on the level ground between the Castle and Hunterston House.

When visiting the walled garden this summer, Clan members will probably see a new face, that of Christine Curtis, who lives over at Campbelton. She is ably assisting Ian, and the garden is benefiting from her efforts.

Up to the end of June 1993, very few Clan members fromthe United States of America have visited Headquarters. Weather up to the end of June has been unseasonably cold and wet and sunshine levels have been below average. Indeed snow fell in mid-May, and on 15th of that month your editor drove for 30 miles through a snow blizzard on Speyside and was told that snow-ploughs were 'out on the notorious Cockbridge to Tomintoul road. The skiers enjoyed the late snow on the runs inCoire Cas and Coire na Ciste, high above Glenmore Lodge in the Cairngorms, but it was no weather for an early family holiday.