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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 173, 25 July 1870, Page 2

Meeting of Shareholders. — We call attention to two meetings that are advertised at this evening, the [Commercial Company for half-past seven, aud the Lucky Hit at eight o'clock. The Melbourne Cup. — The sporting correspondent of the Australasian writes as follows : — " Manuka has caught it ' hot' with 9st. 91bs,, and he will require to be all and more than Mr. Redwood imagined him to be, to race with the weight. He is, moreover, best left alone at present j damaged ilegs are not always to be trusted. Kuottingly may or may not be well in with 9st. 41bs.; he has a great New Zealand reputation, but he is not yet backed, and ife looks as if there were some doubt of his coming." It would seem from the above that the writer had some doubts as to Manuka being able to stand his work, we are glad, however, to learn from Mr. Redwood that he has received letters from the trainer stating that the horse's legs are in excellent order, and that altogether he is in as good condition as could possibly be wished. Mr. James Wilkie, M.P.C., addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents on Monday last. At the conclusion of his address a vote of confidence in him was carried unanimously. Mr. Wilkie said that it had been his intention to resign his seat, because he considered his sphere of usefulness was circumscribed in such a manner by the conduct of the party who were in a majority in the Council that he had no opportunity of doing any good to his constituents, but as he saw the electors had so much confidence iv him, aud were desirous he should retain his seat, he would reconsider his determination. Export of Grain. — During the month of March last, a quarter of a million of bushels of grain passed over the Christchurch Railway for shipment to England. It is intended to get up a company to carry out the graviug dock at Auckland, as proposed by Mr. Aickou, C.E., with a capital of £100,000, the greater portion of which sum fit is proposed should be raised in England. The Dunedin Evening Star announces the first number of a new periodical which is intended to supply what the Editor deems a wavt — the opportunity of discussing "some of the grandest problems which the age feels called upon to solve." The present number, it says, is devoted to the consideration of Spiritualism, and as the journal has assumed the- title of the Day Star, its rising will in all probability relieve the daily journals of the burden of that speculative subject. Anti-Slavery Society. — On Saturday, April 6, the American Anti-Slavery Society was formally disbanded. Commenting on this, the Neio York Tribune says it has rarely happened that the same men and women who began so great a work as that of the American Anti-slavery Society lived to rejoice ovor its accomplishment. " None perhaps of the enthusiaastic apostles of liberty who organised this association thirty-seven years ago believed that in a single generation every slave in the United States would be freed, and every other political disability be removed from the long- oppressed race." Their aim, by the will of Providence, is reached,, and they may now rest from tbeir labours. Four millions of negroes in the South are now their own masters, doing well, with little plots of land, and a rich soil to yield them profit for their labour. Immigration is invited from the North, as well as from Europe. The New York Times states that a Convention is to be held at Charleston on the 3rd of May to aid the movement to South Carolina ; several large colonies of Germans have recently settled in Alabama, and a colony of New-Yorkers are also on their way there. Fifty-three thousand emigrants, black and white, have passed through Memphis within the last j five months, destined for the South-west, of whom fifteen thousaud were newly- | arrived foreigners. North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky have each organised bureaus of immigration, which are actively at work, and similar efforts are being made — and with great success — to turn the tide towards Alabama and Mississippi. "All this is but the begiuing of the end. It is'destined to go on increasing until the South shall be filled up with a new element of population, which will introduce new ideas, bring its vast extent of unoccupied lands under tillage, and ultimately build a homogeneous civilisation upon the ruins of that false and pernicious system which has hitherto been an incubus upon the South, socially, politically, and materially."