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THE PRICE OF SHEEP IN AUSTRALIA. 
with safety, even in countries in which the cattle plague had 
broken out; providing that in such countries all possible 
measures of precaution have been adopted consonant with 
those in force in neighbouring states. Prohibition of exports 
is to extend to the infected districts only, and not to the 
entire country in which the disease has appeared. 
Immediately on an outbreak of plague being detected, all 
the diseased animals are to be killed; all those which have 
been herded with them are to be isolated, and placed under 
observation. 
The appearance of cattle plague in a herd, during trans¬ 
port, is to determine the slaughter of the herd. 
Every state is to publish a weekly bulletin referring to the 
progress of cattle plague, and directly on the discovery of the 
presence of the disease a state is expected to telegraph the in¬ 
formation of the fact to the neighbouring states, and no state 
shall permit the transport to other countries of animals which 
it would not permit to remain alive in its own jurisdiction. 
Finally, we may state that the decisions of the Conference 
are not authoritative, it having been from the first clearly 
understood that the representatives of the various powers 
were free to express their own views without in any way 
pledging their respective Governments to take action 
thereon. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE PRICE OF SHEEP IN AUSTRALIA. 
The Melbourne Leader says:—Long lustre-woolled sheep 
are beginning to be highly appreciated in this colony. The 
sale by Messrs. Powers, Rutherford & Co. of the late Mr. T. 
Austin's flock of pure and cross-bred Lincolns, which took 
place at Barwon Park, furnishes ample proof of this. The 
number of this breed of long-wools disposed of under the 
hammer of the auctioneer was the greatest and the prices 
were the highest ever obtained in the colony. Pure Lincoln 
rams fetched from £21 to £112 each; do., weaners, £10 to 
