§ COLONEL WARING (Down, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he had any information with respect to the case of a bullock suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, reported to have been exported from the county Tyrone to Cumberland; whether, if the report was true, he would have strict inquiry made as to whence the disease, which has been so long extinct in Ulster, has been imported; 1007 and whether pleuro-pneumonia now exists in county Tyrone, or in any other Northern county?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURReports have been received of an outbreak on the 26th of February of pleuro-pneumonia in Cumberland, and among cattle alleged to have been purchased at markets in the counties of Tyrone and Londonderry about a month previously. An inspector of the Irish Veterinary Department is at present engaged in making careful inquiry as to the origin of the outbreak. Pleuro-pneumonia does not, so far as the Veterinary Department is aware, exist in the county Tyrone, or any other northern county; and, according to the official Returns, the whole of the Province of Ulster has been entirely free from the disease since 1885.