Colonel Spaight on inspection found that of the 196 proposed cottages, the erection of 61 had been forbidden by the sanitary authorities, the notices for the erection of 23 had been wrongly served, 20 were proposed to be erected on sites not adjoining a public road, and no necessity had been shown for erecting 40 of the others.

He accordingly recommended that only 32 be allowed to be erected! For a small town like Tralee this proposition to put up 196 buildings at the public expense where only 32 were needed is not bad.

It has the right old Tammany Ring smack, and would have commanded, I am sure, the patronising approval of the late Mr.Tweed.
I mentioned it to-night at the County Club, when a gentleman said that this morning at Macroom a serious "row" had occurred between the local Board of Guardians there and a great crowd of labourers.

The labourers thronged the Board-room, demanding the half-acre plots of land which had been promised them.

The Guardians put them off, promising to attend to them when the regular business of the meeting was over.