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THE MARRIAGE TIE.

ENTITLED TO TENBY'S CONFIDENCE.

ANCIENT COAL WORKINGS

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PICTURESQUE VISITORS.

.103 YEARS OLD. -

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103 YEARS OLD. —m i i—— WONDERFUL SOLVA WOMAN. MEMORIES OF THE FRENCH INVASION. Mrs Mary Hughes, of Nine Wells, Solva, Pem- brokeshire, has just celebrated her 103rd birthday. She was born just after the invasion by the French at Fishguard, when the countryside was still ring- ing with the stirring tales of the never-to-be- forgotten event. Her birthplace was Llanychaer, near Fishguard, not far from the little bay at Carrig Gwastad, where the French ships anchored and the nondescript army landed. She well re- members her mother describing to her and her ten brothers and sisters the startling scene, in which her mother took her part with the rest of the women of the district. Mrs Hughes shows every year of her age in her wizened appearance, but these furrows of time are all that denote her age. She has faculties of a much younger woman. Her hearing and sight are both good, and she still gets about the farm lands with wonderful alert- ness. The day the photographer paid her a visit she was out fetching the cows to be milked, and when one of them lagged behind she urged it on to good purpose. She descended several steps unaided, declining the proffered assistance of her visitor, and took up her position before the camera with alacrity. She had never been taken" before.

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| TENBY TIDE TABLE. SEPT.,…

! RAILWAY TIME TABLE. JULY,…

FISHING TRADE BOOM AT MILFORD…

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