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West Coast Times, Issue 384, 15 December 1866, Page 2

An alligator, seventeen feet in length, has been captured on the Bowen River, Queensland ; a bullet from a double-barrelled gun put a stop to his career. A Curious Sentence. — " Sator arepo teret opera rotas," is not first-class Latin, but may be freely translated — " 1 cease from my work ; the sower will wear away his wheels." It is, in fact, something like a nonsense verse, but has theso peculiarities :— l. It spells backward and forward all the same. 2. Then the first letter of earch word spells the first word. 3. Then all the second letters of each word spell the second word. 4. Then all tho third ; and so on through the fourth and fifth. D. Then the last letter of each word, commencing with the last word, spoils the first word. 6. Then the next to the last of each word ; and so on through. Working Foece thorn Water Pressure. — Thore has recently been exhibited in England a "hydraulic coal-cutting machine," which, with a Bupply of thirty gallons of water per minute, at a pressure of tfOOlbs., will do as much work as twenty men. Such a machine is at work at a mine near Leeds ; and when once supplied with water, it keeps goinp, using the samo quantity over and over again as long as may be desired, making twenty-five strokes a minuto. It runs on the rails laid in tho mines, and by the mere pressure of water will cut a length of nearly forty feet an hour, and is ao simple that an ordinary ininw can work it.