The Attorney-General delivered an important speech last night at the Town Hall, Palmerston, before an audience of between 300 and 400 people.

The Mayor of Palmerston (Mr E. H. Clark), who presided, said in introdncing Dr Findlay that in some respects that was rather uperfluous, for few men were better known in Palmerston. He stated that when Dr Findlay first caine to Palmerston the energy and ability he possessed made it apparent that before long he would require wider scope. He congratulated Dr Findlay on reaching the top of the tree in his profession, and referred to the fact that hardly a newspaper in the colony had had a single word to say against his recent appointment by the Government.

Dr Findlay, who was cordially received, said the meeting was to him a unique one. Twenty-one years ago he had come to Palmersion unknown and unknowing, fresh from the University, and full of bookish talk and juvenile ideals. Palmerston had been his legal cradle. There, among a people with generous hearts and open pockets—(laughter)—he had thriven beyond his expectations. There he had married one of the best of women—(applause)—and there his eldest son had been born. There he had made a number of friends and amassed a store of happy recollection and association. Now, after an absence of thirteen years—for he had spent eight years in Palmerston—he found the town little changed, though there were many blanks in the ranks of those who had been foremost townsmen. It gave him great pleasure, however, to see so many turn out to hear him. Bo went on to say:—