Rinderpest in New Guinea.
(Received Feb. 27, 0.57 a.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 26. There is a.severe outbreak of rinderpest in German Sew Guineu, and large numbers of cattle are dying. (Rinderpest, or murrain, the most deadly of cattle diseases, has been known in Europe and Asia from the earliest times. It is highly contagious, and has repeatedly devastated the herds of the old world. In recent times it swept East and por- | lions of South Africa almost clear of oxen and ail allied animals. In '.'.". 1865-<S7 H caused thp death of about » 150.00Q cattle in England nlom\ and SJ:. -•»» at last stamped out only by Ihe rigid and drastic destruction of jWL jjpHßrtcd beasts and a severe system rfyß* quarantine.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7749, 27 February 1905, Page 3
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119Rinderpest in New Guinea. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7749, 27 February 1905, Page 3
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