SOME of the facts elicited at the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the twenty-eight persons who lost their lives in an explosion at Elemore pit on December 2 last, appear to have a direct bearing upon the coal-dust theory, and are therefore worthy of being recorded. It will be remembered that the inquest was adjourned until January 18, when it was re-opened; it was concluded on the following day. The verdict of the jury was as follows:—