A report on the 'gala and reunion' of the Surry Hills Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society, held on 11 February 1868 at the Botany Street Wesleyan Schoolroom. Among other items, the evening featured recitals of '[the traditional Irish poem] "Caoch the Piper", the dialogue of Pertius and Marcus from Addison's Cato, Pollock's "Byron" and Hood's "Faithless Nelly Grey".'