IRISH TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE “sraeritoa.") Ent,—Mr. P. R. Cave is correct in every particular of his letter on this subject in the Spectator of August 27th. I travelled last week in the motor char-it-bane from Kenmare to Glengarriff, and thence to Bantry, and it was quite plain that the Kerry and Cork roads are unfit for this kind of traffic. It is not only that the surface is unequal, but there is no depth of road engineering. After the break-up of the road to Parknaailla, of which Mr. Cave speaks, and which put astray the advertised times of running, one of the agents for the Association told me that if he Gould be guaranteed the necessary teams of horses he would have started coaches again, but that it was too late in the season. It was estimated that the Kerry County Council will require 4323,000 to relay the roads solidly enough for the work, and that this sum would have to be obtained from the new Road Board. County Cork will also require a large sum. It is to be hoped that the Road Board will refuse, and that the horse traffic will be resumed next year. This is the first year that the motor char-i-bancs have ran, and one with twenty-two persons and luggage weighs about five tons. Unless they are going quite slowly the shaking quite spoils the trip.—
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