Whilst reading old newspapers from 1871 I had to smile at the differences between newspaper content then and today, and the following little snippets about Pembroke and Pembroke Dock in the Western Mail made me smile and I thought I would share them with you:   1.         The weather – the snow and frost up to Saturday, have entirely disappeared, the weather being extremely mild, presenting a very marked contrast to the severe weather of the preceding week.  Numbers of wild gees have been shot in this neighbourhood. (I am still trying to work out what the second sentence has to do with the first!)   2.         The paucity of drunkenness, and other crimes in this and the neighbouring town of Pembroke Dock, is somewhat remarkable, especially at this festive season of the year, there not being any business for transaction on Saturday, or for the past fortnight for the magisterial bench.   3.         On Saturday our reporter, as is his wont, attended at the Town-hall, but found that there was not a single case for bearing brought before the magistrates, this being the third week of the maiden sessions, if we may so term it.  The only business transacted was that of passing the bill of expenses for conveying a pauper lunatic to the joint counties asylum at Carmarthen.   (Today politicians would be celebrating this amazing state of affairs and claiming credit for it!  In both articles the writer seems a little put out that there were no accused to be tried.).   Megan