(Hecelved August flO, at 8.30 p.m.)

The Strike Committees describe the com panies' concessions as a farce, and announces that it willcall labour of all-grades and descriptions out on strike on Monday unless the demands of men are conceded in full by noon on Saturday.
Bmsbane, August 30. : The wharf labourers here have cabled a sum of £150 in aid of the London dock men. ,

TELEGRAMS.
(Pbb United PnEss Association.)

Auckland, August 30.
D. B. Orchard, who was arrested at Russell, was brought up at the Police" Court to-day charged with the forgery of a promissory note for £25. Tho case was' remanded till the 6th September, bail being allowed to prisoner, him sulf in £500 and two sureties in £250. He was released in thtso bonds, but was afterwards rearrested on another charge of forging a pro missory note for £35. This case was also re manded, and tha application for bail was refu?ed.
It is stated other charges are pendirig against Orchard, who was a jiharebrokor doing consider able business.
Au " at home" was given by the Auckland Club at the Choral Hall in honour of Mr and Mrs J. It. Clarke, who are leaving on a visit to Eng land. '

Wellington, August 30.
Principal Rainy was welcomed here on arrival from the South by a largo gathering of Presby terians, who presented him with an nddroes. In his reply be spoke iv flattering terms of the colony so far as ho had Been it, and compared the state of tho church with that at Home, rather in favour of tho former.
