Major-General Sir Hector Mac donald is to receive a cordial welcome when he arrives in AVellingtou. The Gaelic Society has arranged to enter tain him „at a banquet, and has sent him a cable message welcoming him to these shores. A cablegram has been received in Invercargill from the General stating that he will arrive in Invercargill about the 21st October for a short tour of New Zealand. his stay he. w^l be tho guest of the Highland Society, who are making great preparations for his re ception and entertainment. iThis fcablegram is in answer" to an invitation pent some time ago. , i

The enforcement of the' rules against the admittance of strangers to the Bouse of Representatives without a ticket is creating not a little con fusion, as some Ministers' secretaries, with whom the guards are not, familiar, have been stopped at tb^e doors, and one day last week a pro minent member of the Legislative Council was asked his business as he entered. ' ■■ ' ■

A medical man expresses tiio opinion that the exaggerated |lats, overladen with ornaments, which many ladies now wear, are responsible for a good deal of the peevishness, fretfulness and incipient mental aberration which characterises so many of the fair sex who pride them selves on being always in the fashion. These women are liable to suffer from a peculiarly irritable kind of head ache.
WENT MAD IN CHURCH.
