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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN AUSTRALIA. 
Day and Mever have found it prevailing on several stations 
on the Urana, Colombo, and Billy Bong Creeks, where this 
plant is very abundant. On one of these stations (Coonong) 
the beast slaughtered for examination proved to be highly 
infected, and the external appearance of such of the herd as 
came under their notice evinced strong symptoms of general 
infection. 
We may observe that the settlers generally were unwilling 
to acknowledge, and certainly very much annoyed to be made 
aware, that their runs were really infected. We were sur¬ 
prised to find that so little concern was manifested by them 
in a matter of such grave importance, and one so intimately 
affecting their interests. It was to be supposed that they 
would have visited the Yarra Yarra station to make them¬ 
selves acquainted with the disease in all its forms, so as to be 
able to detect and deal with it the moment it made its first 
appearance in their own herds. We should have expected 
to see public meetings in all parts of the district to discuss 
the matter thoroughly, at which opinions could have been 
expressed to guide combined action on the subject; but with 
one or two exceptions, we do not find that anything of the 
sort had been done. 
In compliance with the instructions contained in your tele¬ 
gram of the 20th of December, the board met at Albury on 
the 23rd, and on the same day approved of and transmitted 
suggestions as bases of regulations, but it appears that they 
were not in conformity with the views of the Government, 
since they have not been adopted. 
Mr. Smith, theVictorian commissioner at Albury, addressed 
to us an official letter, requesting an interview, for the purpose 
of making amicable arrangements for crossing cattle into 
Victoria. He has to guard against the crossing of diseased 
cattle over the Murray from five miles above Lowong upwards 
to ten miles below Wagunyah downwards. After discussing 
the subject with Mr. Smith, we find that he will remain on 
this side of the river, so as to be able to examine all cattle 
before they cross. Should any one be so foolish as to evade 
his inspection, or.take cattle over after he has declared them 
unsound, it would subject them to be immediately placed in 
quarantine. Mr. Smith will exercise his own judgment of the 
soundness or unsoundness of the cattle which he inspects, 
and will not object to pass any he may deem healthy; but he 
wishes that timely nolice may be given to him by persons in¬ 
tending to take cattle over the river, in order to facilitate the 
inspection, since he has so large a frontier to guard. 
When the commissioners addressed their letter to vou of 
