The fortnightly meeting of the Ofcahuhu Mutual Improvement Association, held on Monday evening, was devoted to music, readings, and elocution. Mr. Allen read Browning's ever-popular " Pied Piper of Hamelin Mr. Baillie, "A Little Help is Worth a Great Deal of Pity." Mr. A. Harrison gave a comic recitation, " My Old Overcoat Miss Pauline Harrison recited in a perfect manner, Scott's " Death of Marmion," and Mr. Jaraes Armstrong delighted the audience with a musical selection on the pianoforte. • The meeting was a very pleasant one.—[Own Correspondent.] An enterprising literary American has just discovered that Julius Caesar was not assassinated for political reasons, as generally supposed, but because in the Senate he passed a disparaging remark on the fitting of the toga of Michael Cassius, which evidently must have been made up by some second-class tailor in the Via Sartoris. This, aud this only, it seems, caused the tragic fate of the mighty Julius.; Suits made at the New Zealand, Clothing Factory fit,perfectly. . Mr. Jaggs, uinior, the new cutter,.gives entire satisfaction. Inspection invited. "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8965, 24 August 1892, Page 6
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