... A HAT MARKED THE SPOT. Mr. Howel Cuthbertson (coroner) held an in- quest at Taibach on Monday afternoon, touching the circumstances connected with the death of David Morgan, of Taibach, who was found drowned in the float at Port Talbot on Saturday by his son. The evidence given showed that deceased had been insane for some time past. On the bank, from which it is supposed he jumped into the ...

... THE POST BAG. There is an army of 40,596 policemen in England and Wales. The police and constabulary cost us last veatf £4,091,303. Every policeman in the United Kingdom-baa 714 people to take charge of. No less than 20 cases of scarlet fever have been reported in Swansea during the past fortnight! The Electric Lighting Committee of the Swansea Corporation are stilLawake, and have some Ideas. ...

... CORN BY WEIGHT. Replying this (Tuesday) afternoon to a deputation from the Central and Associated Chamber of Agriculture, the President of the Board of Trade expressed his sympathy with the sales of grain by uniform weight, rather than by measure, and he sympathised with the efforts made to promote that end, but could not at present plcdge.tbe Government as to what legislative steps should be ...

... THE DUBLIN OUTRAGES. SECRET INQUIRIES. THIS DAY. The inquiry regarding the mysterious murder and recent outrages and attempted outrages in Dublin opened to-day a. the Police Department, Dublin Castle, and is being conducted with the greatest secresy. Mr. Thome, resident magistrate, created justice of the peace for the purpose, is conducting the inquiry, assisted by Mr. John Million, Assistant ...

... THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED ANOTHER. + SENSATIONAL DisCLOSURES. The hearing of the extraordinary will case Clarke and others v. Stanley and others, arising out of the administration of the estate of the late Mr. William H. S. CuUener, of Clapham, was resui^ jd before Justice Chitty in the Chancery Division to-day. When the case opened to-day, Mr. Daniel submitted several documents on behalf of the ...

... The inaugural concert, under the auspices of the recently-formed Mumbles Male Voice Party, was given in the Castleton Congregational Sehcoiroom last (Monday) evening, when there was a large and appreciative audience present. Mr. J. T. Fair- child acted as conductor, whilst the duties of accompanist were discharged by Mr. George Davies. It would be invidious to single out any- one for special ...

... A. PLEA FOR OUR AGED PAUPERS AND POOR CHILDREN. TO: THE EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES DAILY POST. Sot, -Will you allow me through the columns of jjoar widely-circulated paper to plead on behalf of our aged paupers—the children of our Undenomina- tional Ragged School, and of our various institu- tions. At this season of the year, when the heart is supposed to be more than usually over-flowing with ...

... THE POST BAG. One-seventh of the landowners of GreatBritail are women. Th3 Dean, of Llandsff is j llBt, out of his influenza, and it isexpeeted he will. resume his duties ia a few days. Genie»ariamgl ffhas sprung up in ftther flacefc tban Welsh werkheusesi: Sfcig lime it Jbfttf beer. fi,di&n,ag tvtn. tititiduncekhe 4eatha oi,two \TBiiieil-, ftged resBseilveiy Wiländ loe year- Mrs; lipase!! ...

... THE CARMARTHEN MURDER. PRISONER INTERVIEWED BY HIS STEP-MOTHER, ALL OVER BEFORE LONG. Mrs. Thomas had an interview with her step-son at Carmarthen goal yesterday (Friday), through the bars, and was thus unaDie to see whether he was physically anything the better or worse for his incarceration. Phe fouud however, in pretty much the same spirits. Can t you bring me a daily paper to read ? it ...

... BREACH OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT. A Captain Fined at Swansea. I N. Johansen, master of the Pepita, was summoned at the instance of the Board of Trade, before the Swnnsea magistrates on Thursday, for breaking the Merchant Shipping Act by carrying a deck load of timber iti excess of the amount allowed in the Act. —Mr Edward Strick pro- secuted, and the defendant admitted the offence. It ...

... A Coal Trade Opera. DESiGN FOR A GRAND PRODUCTION. The Meny Merchant and L, t).c 11 1; Ca.usdcC!erk/' j [BY ALASTOR. The following is a rough outline of an opera, which we leave to some enterprising Librettist and Musician to carry out. The subject of the Coal Trade has never yet, so far as we are aware, been treated in Opera, and there is 110 doubt that, in a town of light and leading like ...

... TO TI! I,' EDITOR OF THE SOUTH WALES Rcno. I Sin,—I am glad that that earnest and useful companionship, the Society for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Nude in Art has given us the opportunity of viewing Mr Solomon's Awakened. Censor seems to me to have got himself very seriously kinked up in that labyrinth prepared for those who ask, Is it This phrase, as generally used, is simply ...