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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
The cattle plague still continues to prevail in the following 
provinces of Russia, namely: Bessarabia, Volhynia, Ekate- 
rinoslav, Taurida, Kherson and St. Petersburg. 
In Austria the cattle plague continues to exist in fourteen 
districts of Galicia, in five districts of Dalmatia, in four dis¬ 
tricts of the Sclavonia Military Frontier, and in one district 
of Fiume. Hungary, Croatia, and Sclavonia are said to be 
free from the plague. 
The cattle plague was officially declared to be extinct 
throughout the German Empire on the 6th of March, all 
the infected places in the Government of Merseburg having 
been declared free from the plague, and that no fresh case of 
the disease had occurred since the 8th of February. 
Facts and Observations. 
Pig Typhoid. —The typhoid fever which recently proved 
fatal to a large number of pigs in the neighbourhood of 
Chievely, near Newbury, has just broken out among the swine 
on several farms in the Elsley district of Berkshire. 
Diseased American Cattle. —Pleuro-pneumonia is re¬ 
ported to have been detected in no less than twenty animals, 
part of the cargoes of American cattle imported into Liver¬ 
pool by the Brazilian and the Ontario. The entire cargoes 
were slaughtered at the port of landing within the prescribed 
period of ten days, and all the animals inspected by Mr. 
Moore, the officer of the Privy Council, who reports that the 
disease was fully established in each case. 
Pleuro-pneumonia in Prance. —Pleuro-pneumonia has 
appeared in the south-east of Prance. It is attributed to im¬ 
portation of cows from Italy. 
Selling Diseased Meat. —ACoventry butcher has been 
sentenced to two months imprisonment for exposing diseased 
meat for sale. It was his sixth offence. 
Cattle Market at Hull. —Plans have been prepared 
by the Hull Corporation for the erection of an English cattle 
market on a scale which will give the town one of the largest 
markets in the kingdom. The actual site of the proposed 
market extends over about ten acres. 
