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placed in quarantine, that they should be able to take their 
fat stock to the Melbourne markets, provided the Victorian 
commissioner should be satisfied of their being sound. If it 
was found that disease really existed all the way to Albury, 
then there would be an outlet in that direction for sound 
cattle from interdicted runs. We prosecuted our exami¬ 
nations towards Albury accordingly, and had little difficulty 
in tracing the disease continuously to that place. In the 
meanwhile we every day saw more and more the necessity 
for having fuller powers than the law afforded to us to carry 
out our examinations satisfactorily. We felt that, until 
regulations were proclaimed twice in the Gazette , in accord¬ 
ance with ‘The Cattle Disease Prevention Act/ we had 
no power to do anything which might be contrary to the 
wishes of stock-owners; and that they were liable to no 
penalties if they resisted the inspectors or violated the 
quarantines. We therefore devoted our attention to the 
framing of regulations, and transmitted a draft for your con¬ 
sideration, but they do not seem to have met with the appro¬ 
bation of the Government. 
From Albury we went to Wagga Wagga, and on our way 
we pursued our inquiries. We traced the disease to that 
township, and having learned that cattle from Bowler's station 
had been straying back to Messrs. White's, Hurley's, and 
Dallass’s runs, in the Lachlan district, probably carrying the 
disease along with them, we decided on examining these runs, 
and discovering whether they were infected or not, and to 
report at once the result, giving it as a resolution passed by 
the Board, that if the disease had crossed the Murrumbidgee, 
any measures which it could think of in the shape of quaran¬ 
tines or prohibitions would prove ineffectual to prevent the 
further spread of the disease where no rivers, fences, or im¬ 
passable ranges could be made available for that purpose. 
Messrs. Garland, Bruce, and Pottie proceeded to the Messrs. 
Wh ite’s run, on the “ Levels/' where they found the disease. 
'They therefore at once returned to Wagga Wagga, and, 
having reported in conformity with the resolution of the 
board, came on to Albury. 
In the meantime Messrs. Day and Meyer had continued 
their inspection down the Murrumbidgee for some distance, 
and thence by the Urana to the Colombo and Billy Bong 
Creeks. They examined the stations as they went along, and 
found disease on them all. They reported particulars to 
Government by telegram, and hastened to Albury. 
Much stress has been laid on the assumption that the salt¬ 
bush would be an antidote to pleuro-pneumonia, but Messrs. 
