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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Tho Japanese in Manchuria are on the move again, and another great general engagement is apparently impending. If they get to grips all along the Russian front of forty-two miles, we may look for at least a week of continuous' battlewith, on appearances, signal victory to tho Japanese, who, apart from other advantages, have a great superiority in numbers. We cannot locale any of the places named to-day as indicating the Hussiaii lino of front, but it will be surprising if the advance of tho Japa nose is confined to tho country wost of tho hue, as described this morning. The whereabout* of tho Baltic Flcot ii not reported, but there is indirect ovidoncc that it in still hanging about tho coasi of Cochin-China. Togo remains invisible W. A. Cameron, a Hastings cyclist, on 1 Saturday morning commenced an attempt on the road record between Wellington and Napier. He left Wellington shortl> after 6 o clock on Saturday morning, ami his time to Carter-ton was 3 hours 45 minutes. Tho roads were bad nil the way, but Cameron never left hii machine. He wits pedalling so fast that his "pacer" was left far behind, and eventually luined back. Ma.fterton was readied at 10.35, and Cameron expected that the condition of the roads would improve beyond Pahintna. A Press Association niwsago states that Cameron had to abindon the attempt on reaching Tak.v pau Plains as the roads were in a teniblc state. lie was ahead of Smith's record timo when he decided to dismount, and W2s riding weß