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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
A serious outbreak of this disease has lately broken out 
in several places in the immediate neighbourhood of Warsaw, 
in Poland. 
The disease also continues to prevail in the provinces of 
Bessarabia, Volhynia, Ekaterinoslav, PetrokofF, Podolia, 
Taurida, and Kherson, in Russia. 
In Austria the cattle plague is still very prevalent, the 
following provinces being declared infected with that 
disease:—Slavonia, Croatia, and on the Military Frontier, 
likewise in Carniola. 
In the district of Smyrna, in Turkey, the disease has 
ceased to exist. 
The cattle plague which was introduced into the Mauritius 
on the 7th of May last, by animals brought from the island 
of Madagascar, has advanced with great rapidity through¬ 
out the island. The total number of animals which are 
stated to have died or been destroyed since the commence¬ 
ment of the disease up to the beginning of November, 
amounts to 17,946 out of a total cattle population of 30,000, 
besides 343 deer. 
CATTLE PLAGUE IN CYPRUS. 
On December 8th telegrams were received from Larnaca 
to the effect that the cattle plague had broken out in the 
town, and that many animals had died. Since then addi¬ 
tional information has confirmed the statement, and also that 
the malady was on the increase, and had extended to the 
Turkish quarter of the town. The latest news, which comes 
down to the end of December, is to the effect that the plague 
was still spreading, and that no cattle were allowed to enter 
or leave Larnaca by sea or land. 
SWINE PLAGUE. 
According to the Mark Lane Express of December £2nd, 
the steamer Bernard Castle has arrived in the Clyde with 
a large number of pigs from Montreal, which have been 
condemned by the Government Inspector as suffering from 
swine plague. One hundred died on the passage, and 
twelve since. This is the first outbreak of swine plague 
among swine imported from Canada. 
