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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 172, 14 July 1876, Page 14

Any one who visits Kinsale just now, when the fishing season! is well opened, cannot fail to be struck by the appearance of life ' and business he sees everywhere around him. During a great portion of the year the town is comparatively deserted, and at such a time a more uninteresting place to spend a day in, would not be easy to find; but when the fishing opens the aspect of Kinsale undergoes a most agreeable change. The harbor is alive with fishing vessels and boats of all descriptions, the streets are thronged with English, French, Scotch, and native fisUermen, and others engaged in the fishing trade, everywhere there is an air and appearance of business that is quite cheering to see. When such is the case, notwithstanding the disadvantageous circumstances under which places of the kind labor at present, one can easily imagine what the Irish fisheries would be if their resources were fully developed. The present season promises to be one of the most successful for many years past. At its opening the weather was most unfavorable, and things looked dismal enough for a time, but from this forward there is every reason to expect large takes of fish. There is at present in Kinsale a fleet of about four hundred vessels from various parts of France, Lowestowft, Peel, Castletown, Howth, Kilkeel, Newry, Ardrossan, &c., and a number the property of local owners.