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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4433, 4 June 1875, Page 3

This is the way a Frenchman reported the Brooklyn scandal : “ One Grand Ecclesiastical Scandal.—Great excitement in New York and Brooklyn. —Three Clergymen in moosh Trouble. —Mons. Moultong, Tiltong, and Beechare have one grand controversee. Mons. Moultong is ze pastorr of ze Plemoz Shurch, of New York, discovered by Columbus, Ohio, in 1492. Mons. Moultong is accuse of taking ze impropare libertee wiz ze wife of Theodore Beechare, who is Mrs. Harriot Beechare Stowe, ze mozare of Onkle Tom, ze blind pianiste. Mons. Beechare also is accuse of ze impropare libertee wiz Mad. Tiltong, daughter of Susan B. Anthony, sistare of Mark Antony, who was made love wiz Cleopatra. Mons. Tiltong have cause ze separashong of Mons. Beechare and his wife. She resides in ze seety of Brooklyn, New Jersey. Ze congregashong of ze Plemoz Rock Shurch vill not permit Mons. Moultong to preesh longer from zat poolpet. Ze greatest excitement prevails.” Our French friend appears to understand this matter as clearly as though he had a “ statement ” to make. According to the West Coast Times several strange discoveries have been made in the course of constructing the Waimea water-race, and now we hear of another which will no doubt interest geologists. At Fox’s, near the mouth of one of the tunnels of the race, there was found a large block of lias rock, which Mr. Gow, the Inspector of AVorks, believes to have been the bones of a whale embedded in it. The curiosity will be carted to Hokitika early this week, and forwarded to Wellington. The Timaru Herald is responsible for the following : —“ We have been informed on good authority that at the execution of Mercer a disgusting practice, long since put a stop to in all decently conducted goals, was revived, the rope used for hanging the murderer being cut in pieces by the bystanders, by way of securing a memento of the exciting event, and a member of the detective force setting the example. If this is true, the Minister of Justice ought to inquire closely into all the circumstances, and, if possible, have all the offenders punished. Perhaps the most effectual and the easiest way of doing this would be to obtain from the sheriff a list of all the persons who were present at the execution, and publish their names in the newspapers, indicating by a black mark those who can be identified as having joined in this shameful business. It is bad enough to have parsons petting a out-throat, or reporters furnishing details of his appearance or comportment; but it is going a little too_ far to have renewed at this stage of civilisation the demoralising usages of the age of Jonathan Wild.”